We just want to announce a small update to SecretSync, for OS X only, that allows synchronization of Microsoft Office documents while they are open and being edited. Office products generally lock files while in use. This has been a problem for many sync products, Dropbox included, since users generally want their changes to synchronize as soon as they click save, and sync tools need to be careful about synchronizing files that have locks on them, since doing so may cause data corruption. Office products like Word generally put a lock on the file until you are done editing and close it. Because of this, users would have to wait until they exit the program before the file would synchronize.
SecretSync already allows Office documents to synchronize while editing on the Windows platform, but not on OS X. This update fixes this behavior, and allows edits to Office documents to synchronize without having to close the Office application first.
If you are already running SecretSync, simply download this version and run the install. It should update the SecretSync service without changing your settings.
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