When you check a file out from the shared folder, it is copied from the shared folder into your user folder. Any changes made to this copy of the file remain private to your user folder until you check the file back in to the shared folder. The file's status in the file list changes to Checked Out.

When you work in UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin, you should check files out the first time you work on a project that was created by someone else. It is also important to check out files when you are working on a project with other people. A number of activities default to using files that exist in your user folder. If you created the original files, and then checked them in for someone else to work on, and you then want to work on those files again, you must check out the latest versions of the files from the shared area otherwise you may find yourself working on out of date files.