file-sharing

I was wanting to use a file sharing server to keep certain files up-to-date and constant across multiple instances of my application across multiple computers - like (for example) writing a multiplayer game, which stores all the player's positions in a text file, and uses something like Dropbox to keep the text file constant across all the applications, and each application instance can change the file with that application's player's position, and then the rest of the applications can update accordingly. This is only an example, and is not what I intend to do using this technology. What I

I have a backend server that has to download a file on Google Drive that has been shared to public by the owner. Our clients are emailing us the link and we get the link from the email -- no UI is involved. The program needs to get or download the file and process it offline . The google samples seem to be runnig using the UI where as this is a automated backend process.Also, this application is to running on my server and not on Google App Engine . Do I still need to register my app if all I am doing is acessing files shared to public by the owner. For reference , please note that it is

I have a file sharing issue where my process is trying to read a log file whilst it is currently still open by NLog. In diagnosing the issue, I found something surprising. The following fails: using (var fileStream1 = new FileStream("test.file", FileMode.Append, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.Read)) using (var fileStream2 = new FileStream("test.file", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read)) { } The second FileStream constructor call fails with: System.IO.IOException was unhandled Message=The process cannot access the file 'c:\...\test.file' because it is being used by another process.