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Introducing and Installing Peachtree Accounting
Getting Started Guide
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About Record and File Locking
If you install Peachtree Accounting to run on a network, sharing data with
more than one person, you could have more than one person entering
invoices, payments, orders, etc. for the same company at the same time.
Peachtree Accounting uses Record and File locking to ensure that data is
properly protected and updated. A record is one group of information,
composed of related fields. For example, the fields in one customer’s
window—Name, Address, Phone, etc.—go together to form that customer’s
record. Likewise, all customer records go together to form the customer file.
more than one person, you could have more than one person entering
invoices, payments, orders, etc. for the same company at the same time.
Peachtree Accounting uses Record and File locking to ensure that data is
properly protected and updated. A record is one group of information,
composed of related fields. For example, the fields in one customer’s
window—Name, Address, Phone, etc.—go together to form that customer’s
record. Likewise, all customer records go together to form the customer file.
If two people were making changes to the same customer, without record and
file locking, two things could happen:
file locking, two things could happen:
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The information could get jumbled, combining each person’s
changes.
changes.
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Person #1, working on the same customer information as Person #2,
saves his changes first. Person #2 finishes their changes and saves the
record a few minutes later. Person #2’s changes will be the only
changes saved, since Person #2 was the last person to save the record.
saves his changes first. Person #2 finishes their changes and saves the
record a few minutes later. Person #2’s changes will be the only
changes saved, since Person #2 was the last person to save the record.
To eliminate either possibility from occurring, Peachtree Accounting uses
“locks” to prevent a particular record or file from being accessed by more than
one person at a time. In the example above, when the second person attempts
to change the customer record the first person is using, Peachtree Accounting
will wait for the first person to finish, then allow the second user to begin. In
special cases when Peachtree cannot wait, it will display the following
message:
“locks” to prevent a particular record or file from being accessed by more than
one person at a time. In the example above, when the second person attempts
to change the customer record the first person is using, Peachtree Accounting
will wait for the first person to finish, then allow the second user to begin. In
special cases when Peachtree cannot wait, it will display the following
message:
“That record in file ‘Customer.DAT’ is currently in use. Please try again
when it is available.”
when it is available.”
Peachtree Accounting uses two different types of locks: Record Locks, and
Exclusive File Locks.
Exclusive File Locks.