Help! no more read only files

[HUEB]

Hello Everyone,

I'm the CAD Manager for a large University, we maintain about 1000 floor plans as well as other documents.

There are aout 4 of us who edit floor plans and this has never been a problem because if someone was in a file and someone else tried to open it they would get a notification that the drawing can be opened only in a "read only" format.

recently someone discovered that edits they remembered performing were not on the drawing. After investigating we realized that we could both open the same drawing with no warnings or read only access (we both had a writable file).

We further discovered that when we were both in the file and saved the one who saves first loses all their edits and only the second save records the edits.

One suggestion was that the server drive needed more space availible to write some sort of temp files. 600 files removed and no difference.

We tried copying one of the files to another server drive and then had success only being able to open one writable copy at a time.

Anyone have any ideas what's going on here?
And how to fix?

Thanks for all your time
Hueb

[CADTutor]

Hmm. That is unusual. When AutoCAD opens a drawing, it creates a lock file in the same folder as the drawing. For example, if your drawing is called "drawing.dwg", a hidden file called "drawing.dwl" will be created in the same folder. If another user tries to open the same file, the .dwl file lets AutoCAD know that it is already being edited.

Somehow on your system, this process is breaking down. I'm not quite sure what to suggest.

[f700es]

Hmm. That is unusual. When AutoCAD opens a drawing, it creates a lock file in the same folder as the drawing. For example, if your drawing is called "drawing.dwg", a hidden file called "drawing.dwl" will be created in the same folder. If another user tries to open the same file, the .dwl file lets AutoCAD know that it is already being edited.

Somehow on your system, this process is breaking down. I'm not quite sure what to suggest.

In older versions there used to be an option to allow file locking (r14 I believe). It seems that this has been turned off somehow


Edit: Post 1000 BTW

[erona]

Edit: Post 1000 BTW

[HUEB]

Thanks for the thoughts.
A little more info...
It's AutoCAD Architectural Desktop 2002.
We have a NFS server.
Out of all our files (floor plans, maps, ect.) I know of one file that frequently creates a *.dwk file, the others never do.
I have never seen a *.dwl file on our system.
We searched for *.dwk and *.dwl withh hidden files enabled unsuccessfully.
The lack of lock files makes me think that the read only protection is created in other way but I'm at a loss as to how.
Any other thoughts greatly appriciated.
Thanks