My workplace is driving me crazy!

[John@Kapoo]

With out being specific as I'm sure it happens alot on LANs - The prob I/we are having is when one person views info in a in-house database, then closes it and want to edit maybe one of the images that was viewed in the database - the image file is locked and not able to either open or edit and works visa versa. It is annoying (to say the least!) when you have to either keep closing the database down or Photoshop. It doesn't always happen, but is often enough to be of an annoyance.

Now, in my fairy tale world that I'd love to live in there would be such a programme that can force the info that has just been viewed to be dumped without having to close any software down fully, but like I said... In my own fairy tail world that is. Anyhoooo, just thought I'd give a shout out on here just incase anyone is aware of anyway to get around the problem.

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

John

[Twey]

Not without some actual information, we aren't.

What sort of a "database" are we talking about here? The images are stored in the database? What operating systems are everything running?

[BLiZZaRD]

Not REALLY helpful in any way, but thought it might be *mentally* helpful...

When you have an "I hate my job day" try this:

On your way home from work stop at your pharmacy and go to the thermometer section and purchase a rectal thermometer made by Jonson&Johnson.

Be very sure you get this brand.

When you get home, lock the doors, draw the curtains and disconnect the phone so you will not be disturbed. Change into very comfortale clothing and sit in your favorite spot. Open the package and remove the thermometer.

Now, very carefully place the thermometer on the table or a surface so that it will not become chipped or broken. Now the fun part begins.

Take out the literature and read it carefully. You will notice that in small print there is a statement, "Every Rectal Thermometer made by Johnson&Johnson is personally tested".

Now, close your eyes and repeat out loud 5 times: "I am SO glad I do not work in the thermometer quality control department at Johnson&Johnson."

Have a nice day, and remember, there is ALWAYS someone else with a job that is more a pain in the ass than yours.

~BLiZZ

[Twey]

Yipe!
Don't know about you, but I think that would rather discourage me from wanting to use said thermometer, far from feeling the reassurance they presumably intend that message to provide.

[BLiZZaRD]

I dunno, I always used alcohol first.. just don't want to mix it up with the ORAL thermometer

[John@Kapoo]

Hi Twey.

We basically turn mail order catalogues into online shops and we do this by taking the text and images we are send from PDFs. All images edited in Photoshop, but certain things are done in the database to add content and associating the text to the images. So although the imagery is not stored in the database, but images are viewed in the database when it comes to associating text to imagery, however all the images are stored on a network drive.

Oh and cheers Blizzard, I'll keep that info in mind, lol.

[BLiZZaRD]

Always looking to help, LOL

[Twey]

So your problem is that two users cannot access one of these files on the network drive at the same time?

[djr33]

Yeah, that was my first guess.

You may think you want to get around it, but that's not a great idea. Even if you could rework things, you'd run into problems.

If two people open the same thing at the same time, they'd be constantly saving and deleting the others' work. So.... what possible reason would you need two people to have it open?

Unless you're just talking about viewing the image at the same time.

It is kinda stupid. But, still, at least it stops you from having weird file saving wars if two people decide to work on the same thing at the same time.

[Twey]

Aye, if two people saved at the same time, serious file corruption would result.