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# Synchronize species IDs / ARB name server

- OCCURRENCE
- DESCRIPTION
- NOTES
- EXAMPLES
- WARNINGS
- BUGS

## OCCURRENCE

### ARB_NT/Species/Synchronize IDs

### ARB_MERGE/Check IDs/Synchronize

## DESCRIPTION

### Starts the 'NAME SERVER' to update species IDs ('name') within the specified database according to the information stored in the file '$ARBHOME/lib/nas/names.dat'.

### Press the 'GO' button.

## NOTES

### It is possible to link names.dat to a central names.dat, but you should be aware, that there may occur temporary inconsistencies, if multiple users use the nameserver at the same time.

### The name server examines names.dat and terminates within 5-10 seconds if the file changes. A message is written to the console window in either case.

### Another way to use a central NAME SERVER is to edit '$ARBHOME/lib/arb_tcp.dat' and to specify a central server for ARB_NAME_SERVER. This completely avoids any inconsistencies.

## EXAMPLES

### None

## WARNINGS

### Missing 'acc' fields are generated automatically by this function.

### If there is some warning about duplicate entries, you REALLY should try to understand the reason why this happens:

### It only happens, when you have multiple species with the same 'acc' entry (which is strongly unrecommended). To solve that problem either

- delete the duplicated species or
- modify duplicated acc entries by appending some personal suffix (e.g. your initials)

## BUGS

### No bugs known