Local storage
When you check out or view an object from the repository, it is automatically downloaded to local storage which is a directory on your workstation.
When you save a file in your authoring tool, the changes are saved to the file that was downloaded to your local storage directory. The data in the repository is not updated until you check in the object . When the object is checked in, the data in the repository is updated, the object is unlocked in the repository, and the status of the file in local storage is changed to read-only.
- If you checked in the object and you are not connected to the repository, you can open the file from local storage in read-only mode.
- If you checked in the object and you are connected to the repository, you can check out the object from local storage in read-write mode. Check out accesses the repository, downloads the latest copy to local storage, and locks it in the repository.
- If you did not check in the object, a read-write copy remains in local storage which you can open and continue to modify. Data integrity is maintained in the repository because the object is locked so no other users can modify it until you check it in.