MapInfo Pro

Hi everyone,

I'm a little stuck and frustrated and hoping someone or many of you can provide some help and share your knowledge.

We have got various layers which are used/edited and viewed daily held on a network storage and accessible to anyone with a MapInfo license. These layers are also combined into a seamless layer as they are broken down from County to District level to allow for multiple users to be editing different areas at one time but are required to be viewed at County level.

There has been ongoing issue with the first layer becoming locked making editing difficult as the first file in the folder is a .DAT. The issue is now looking to be related to users accessing (viewing) either this individual layer or the seamless, as very early or later into the evening, the layer unlocks allowing edits to be made and saved. The workaround so far has been to save to a different location until I am able to push the updated version to overwrite the existing layer.

We have had the folder white listed on the AV running on the server, and specifically looking at DAT files in this area, but I need to find out if there is a better way of storing and using this data, as this also feeds to a public portal and shows information relevant to highway boundary and maintenance responsibility of the Local Authority.

This is what the error received states:


I've tried closing all other applications leaving just MapInfo running but again this layer isn't stored locally and I can't push everyone else off while I'm editing from this location.

Are there any guides on storage options or best practice in various situations ranging from single user/editor to large scale multi viewing/editor. Where should we be storing data, is TAB the best/only format for this? 

Thanks