Paratext Live Question(s)

Question

When Person A clicks “Exchange all files” in a Paratext Live session, does that initiate a transfer of files for every user, or does it just send the changes from Person A’s computer and then everybody else needs to click “Exchange all files” to receive those changes?

Answer 1

The “Exchange all files” process is similar to a round of Send/Receive being done by all users in the session.

The first user does a commit (saving all changes made locally to history - like a “Mark point in project history”) and then a file with all the changes is sent to other users in the session.

When another user receives the file, local changes will be saved and the received file will be merged with the local changes. This may cause this user to send another file with changes.

The process continues until all users are up to date with the same new version. There is locking while all this is happening, so users have to do this process one at a time.

The main reason for “Exchange all files” is that a PTLive session only sends changes made in the Scripture text during the normal processing of a session.

John+Wickberg

Comments

It does this for everyone who is participating in the Paratext Live session. I don’t think it remembers any team members who were not part of the session and updates them automatically. They get the changes when a S/R is performed.

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Forgive me John+Wickberg, I’m still a bit confused.

Are you saying that each user needs to manually click Exchange all files, similar to each user needing to manually click Send/Receive, in order to send and receive changes made to relevant files during a Live session? So, “Exchange all files” should be treated like Send/Receive during a Live session?

Or does one user clicking Exchange all files kick off an automatic process where everybody who is in the Live session gets automatically updated?

Thanks,

james_post

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The first user that clicks “Exchange all files” starts the whole process - other users don’t have to click anything to get the updates.

John+Wickberg