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who write protected my drawing?


cadmench

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I was in the process of changing a group of drawings from their default setup to the actual setup I will be using. I went back to check one of them and got a "write protected" warning. I opened it the first time to change the set-up and now I can't open it again to make more changes. I don't know how it got write protected, "there's nobody here but us chickens". How do you remove write protection? :?

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don't know about thread rating but did you close your drawing before trying to open it again. I always work in single document mode but I know in multi document mode it is possible to try and open a drawing twice.

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In Windows Explorer, rt-clk of the filename, click Properties, there's a check box for Read Only

or...

If you're opening it from the dialog box in acad, make sure "Open read only' is not selected

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Close the other copy of the drawing that is open.

 

Or....

 

Save the drawing under a different name using the option "Save as".

 

Or....

 

Remove the read only attribute of the file.

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Might the drawings be stored on a server?

 

The rest is easy. I like working with write protected files. That'll force me to save the drawing with a revision; i.e.: USMC-D17a (the small "a" being the revision).

 

In your file manager (oops, old name), I mean Explorer, you can always delete, rename, change attributes, add comments (I like adding comments).

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