Locked Network Files
Question:
Other than excluding mapped network drives from indexing, is there a way to avoid WDS locking network files and preventing others from working with them (specifically, saving them)?
Details:
When one or more workstations in our office are configured to index shared network resources, very often (larger) files in these locations become locked by the indexer, thus preventing the author from working with the files.
In a specific example, we often run into problems updating PDFs or saving a Visio documents. The file server shows that the lock belongs to an unattended workstation running WDS.
Also, it's odd that many of the files are fairly static... causing us to wonder why the indexer would be looking at the content again anyway. I guess we assumed that the file timestamp/size would be sufficient to know that the the content hadn't changed. If we could limit indexing activity to first-time index then only when the file changes, that would solve the problem.
Thanks in advance.
-Darryl
