[DCRM-L] Where do you save your files

[Randal Brandt]

Wow, I didn't know you could share records saved in the local file. I'll 
have to look into that!
One clarification: If you are using the online save file and are working on 
a "new" record (i.e. one that you create yourself), you have a 28-day clock 
(which resets each time you modify and re-save the record); if you are 
working on an existing record (with or without locking the master record 
first), you have a 14-day clock.

Randy

At 02:52 PM 9/12/2007, you wrote:
>Hi, Deborah,
>    The local file, hands down. The online file has a 14-day "clock" and 
> if you need to spend time researching something, you may exceed that 
> time, meaning you either have to re-save it (starting a new 14-day clock) 
> or lose it (the automated system OCLC uses to sweep records after 14 days 
> knows no mercy).
>    You can share your local files too, if you set everyone's up in a 
> LAN-like shared drive, so that defeats one of the "pluses" of the online 
> file. Of course, you still have the option to use the online save file at 
> times--for instance, if someone needs to share records outside the 
> institution (or LAN), with a NACO or PCC reviser or something.
>    After some 20+ years of suffering with OCLC's online save file, when 
> the local save was introduced with Connexion, I grabbed onto it and 
> haven't looked back!!!               --Jain
>
>
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>From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On 
>Behalf Of Deborah J. Leslie
>Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:41 PM
>To: dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu
>Subject: [DCRM-L] Where do you save your files
>
>
>Another question we've been discussing: where do you save your files on 
>records in progress in OCLC? In the online save file, or in a local save 
>file? For either one, what are the reasons?
>
>Thanks much,
>
>Deborah
>
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>Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S.
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