{"id":8017,"date":"2017-06-22T02:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T10:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/06\/22\/news-1794\/"},"modified":"2017-06-22T02:30:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T10:30:55","slug":"news-1794","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/06\/22\/news-1794\/","title":{"rendered":"Not the disaster recovery we were expecting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

IT pilot fish working for a city government keeps getting complaints from people in the Public Works department that something’s seriously wrong with their documents.<\/p>\n

“The Public Works director, his assistant and another part-time employee told me that every time they make changes to a document, they have to keep re-saving their work,” says fish. “They also have to combine all of their work into yet another saved and current complete document.<\/p>\n

“I asked the Public Works director to start at the beginning. Are you sharing this file off the server? ‘Yes,’ came his curt and snarky reply.<\/p>\n

“OK, which file or folder is your document in? ‘It’s right here.’<\/p>\n

“I immediately saw that the Public Works team just had read-only access to the file. They were taking someone else’s work as their own, which is why they had to keep re-saving the ‘borrowed’ document.<\/p>\n

“After approval from the city administrator, I gave them access to the folder. Disaster averted, I guess…”<\/p>\n

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Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

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IT pilot fish working for a city government keeps getting complaints from people in the Public Works department that something’s seriously wrong with their documents.<\/p>\n

“The Public Works director, his assistant and another part-time employee told me that every time they make changes to a document, they have to keep re-saving their work,” says fish. “They also have to combine all of their work into yet another saved and current complete document.<\/p>\n

“I asked the Public Works director to start at the beginning. Are you sharing this file off the server? ‘Yes,’ came his curt and snarky reply.<\/p>\n

“OK, which file or folder is your document in? ‘It’s right here.’<\/p>\n

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