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Is it possible to synchronize .dat files?

You can use syncfile() on .dat files but not syncdata(). Using syncfile() means that you will overwrite an existing file when you upload it to the server so if you have multiple interviewers all syncing using syncfile() with the same filename they will end up overwriting each others changes. You can work around this by having each interviewer sync with a different data file name and then merge them later using the concatenate tool but that gets tricky to manage. The whole reason we introduced the .csdb format was to be able to store the additional info that allows CSPro to upload only the modified cases so you don't have to worry about all of that.