File Locking prevents file overwriting by a team member. Do cloud storage services support it?

File locking is extremely important for group file sharing and collaboration. Without it, you will certainly run into problems like file overwriting, file merging and conflict of changes, e.g. If User1 and User2 both edited the same file at the same time, and if User1 saved his changes first, then when User2 saves his changes, he will overwrite User1's changes, or he has to merge his changes with user1's changes. A regular file server supports file locking. It works very well if all people are in the same office. When the first user opens a file, the file is locked. Other users can read it, but cannot modify it until the first user closes the file. More and more businesses have migrated to the cloud to work remotely. But, there is a problem: most cloud storage services don't support cloud file locking! Why? Because most cloud storage services are web browser based or folder synchronization based. They inherently cannot support cloud file locking. For example, with a browser-based cloud storage service, you need to download a cloud file and then open it locally. It only locks the local copy, but not the cloud file. Folder synchronization based cloud storage has exactly the same problem. It only locks the file in your local synchronized folder. The cloud file is not locked. To support cloud file locking, you need a cloud storage service that works like a regular file server, such as DriveHQ's cloud file server. DriveHQ has offered the most efficient and reliable WebDAV Drive Mapping service for over 15 years. You can easily map cloud storage as a network drive. There is no learning curve. The File locking feature works just like a regular file server. DriveHQ's FileManager client software also supports cloud file locking. It can directly edit cloud files, and it can lock the cloud file instead of a local copy of the file. For more info, please visit the Cloud File Locking features page. https://www.DriveHQ.com/ https://www.drivehq.com/features/Cloud_File_Locking_Sharing_Collaboration.aspx