Many save conflict errors

Question

I have a rather SP solution, that while being used, is still having modifications made to it.  I mention this because I don't have a lot of past behavior to deduce from.
Anyway, the list is only used by one person, as well as me (the solution builder).  There are two workflows associated with it that both update the current list item.  Off and on, we get save conflict errors.  I have turned the workflow on
and off to see if this might be the cause.  It doesn't seem to be as sometimes the user can save without incidence whether or not the workflow is on.
Any ideas what I should investigate would be appreciated.  We are also experiencing many time-outs when working in datasheet view - so maybe there is just some performance issues with the server?
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Answer 1

Hi run4it,
there are some trigger that may cause this issue to appear, for example: a procedure update(), or event receiver, or others. to narrow down perhaps we can try to check if your custom application have list.update() procedure and try to check this :
Call to list.Update() Multiple times cause below exception.
{"Save Conflict\n\nYour changes
conflict with those made concurrently by another
user. If you want your changes to be applied, click Back in your Web browser,
refresh the page, and resubmit your changes." }
If we are making changes to a list in a loop we should get the List object again
to call List.Update
Regards,
Aries
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