Create Clone script?

[bbaliner]

Hi there,

I am wondering if there is a scipt step to create a clone of files that live on the server, without closing the file on the server first?

Does anyone use such technique already?

Thanks

[Vaughan]

Sure, the "Save a Copy As..." script step. However, it has to be done from within each database (that is, each file has a "save a copy" script, and some main script has to call each of these externally to perform them).

The challenge is that in a multi-user setup, the Save a Copy As... step cannot be run when the file is opened by more than one user, which means that the script really needs to perform a check before doing the save -- not hard to do but it adds to the complexity and means that if one of 20 files are in use then that one won't be cloned.