Jason -
Thanks for the reply - that's a logical scenario. But unfortunately it doesn't seem to apply
here. That user has all of the same customization, startup, defined commands, etc. as
everyone else in the office, and nothing has been added, altered, deleted, etc. If anything
had been changed on the system, it should have affected other people in some manner also. So
far, he is the only one.
Something, somewhere got changed - but I still can't figure out what it is. If you have any
other ideas, I'd love to hear them!
Thanks for the help.
Tim
jason martin wrote:
> I've seen this happen with R14, but it is much more pronounced in A2k. Every time that
> I've seen it in R14 it has been due to some customization (usually mine).
>
> For example I once had about 2300 drawings (small blocks) that I had to go through and
> modify the same thing over and over again (stuff like change the layer of all items to 0,
> change the color to bylayer, etc). I wrote a little lisp routine to do what I wanted to 1
> drawing, then packaged the whole thing in a big script (used dos dir *.dwg >mylist.txt,
> imported that into excel, added columns for open fname lisp save, export to csv, replaced
> all , with spaces, and renamed to scr) so that all of the files could be processed without
> help from me. Well the script would run for a while and then it would hit me with a read
> only. Almost never fail on the same file, never the same time span. I'd kill the script
> and start it over, it would eventually fail. I tried it when the server was busy, I tried
> it when no one else was on the server. I tried with no other apps open, I tried it with
> almost all of my apps open (it actually had longer between failures this way, I think
> because my machine was slower??) and it would still hit me with read-only errors.
>
> Does this user have a special acad.lsp file, or special stuff in his startup? Does he use
> more custom "shortcuts" than other users. Does he have a customized save or open command,
> or is it the standard .save (have any commands been "re-defined")?
>
> This is a "timing" problem in the way autocad saves to a file. I just don't think that
> anyone has figured out exactly what part of the time it is yet?
>
> jason martin
> frankfurt-short-bruza
>
> "TF" wrote in message news:3BBCD1F4.DCDE98C5@hobbs-black.com...
> > I started this thread in the R14 discussion group, and it was suggested
> > I move it here ....you can see some of the replies still in R14. The
> > original message is shown below (anyone have any clues? Thanks!):
> >
> >
> > One of our networked ACADR14 user's has run into an odd read-only
> > situation with files that he is working on. None of this involves a CD
> > or files from a CD, as some past messages have.
> >
> > Whenever he tries to Save or QSave a file, or simply use the Open
> > command to go to another file, AutoCAD tells him that the drawing he is
> > in is read only and can not be saved. He has to do a Saveas, and keep
> > it under a new file name. This gets risky - as he constantly has to
> > make sure he is either renaming files and/or deleting duplicates.
> >
> > What we've tried:
> >
> > 1. All types of drawings (i.e. with/without XREF's) - old, new, etc.
> > with the same result.
> >
> > 2. Working at a different computer. Didn't matter - the problem seems
> > to follow him. So I ruled out the system registry.
> >
> > 3. Reloaded his operating system profile - back from when we knew things
> > worked correctly (Monday) - which also didn't make a difference. So I'm
> > assuming it is not his operating system log in/profile.
> >
> > 4. Reviewed the ACAD knowledge base - which didn't appear to address
> > this issue except in a Unix environment (tried that resolution also -
> > with no luck).
> >
> > 5. Check all of his ACAD settings against other users in the office for
> > items such as demand loading, enable with copy, etc. - no difference.
> >
> > 6. Checked and reset all permissions on files and folders for the
> > program and project file locations - which didn't make a difference.
> >
> > No other user in the office has had this problem - we run a simple WinNt
> > 4.0/SP6a set up with ADLM. All ACAD files are on a network server,
> > except for the executable and a few other critical files which are on
> > local workstations. All project files are also on a server.
> >
> > Anyone with any ideas on why one user consistently gets the read only
> > message when trying to exit a file (he does not receive it when opening
> > the drawing)?
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
