Larry -
Unfortunately autocad doesn't save like most other programs. The way that acad does a
save is something like this (more complicated than this actually, but you'll get the
general idea).
1. User clicks the save button.
2. Acad checks to see if there is a filename.bak file in the same folder as the
filename.dwg folder, If there is DELETE it. Rename the existing filename.dwg to
filename.bak. Now this rename business is a bit confusing to me. I'm not sure that acad
actually does a rename, I think that it might create a copy of the existing filename.dwg
file as filename.bak and then DELETE the filename.dwg file. I'm not sure of this, maybe
one of the Autodesk guys will jump in here and help me out.
3. Acad checks to see if there is a filename.dwg file, If there is, I think that it
tries to DELETE it.
4. The currently loaded drawing is then saved as filename.dwg, assuming that all of the
stuff above work as prescribed.
Unfortunately Autocad's save involves at least one (and probably more than 1) delete.
There is no know way to inhibit delete and allow autocad to function normally at this
time.
sorry
jason martin
frankfurt-short-bruza
"lars972" wrote in message news:f0584a5.-1@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
I have a new win2k server and All of our drawings are saved there. We have about 10
engineers running win95/98 and using AutoCAD 13/14. We open the drawings directly on the
server and make changes, never copying them. I have set the permissions on the shared
directory to modify and removed the delete permission. The boss does not want anyone but
him to be able to delete anything. With delete not allowed, autoCad can not save properly.
We get "can not save as it is opened by another session" and with delete allowed it works
fine. By opening throught the network then saving, does the save operation in AutoCAD
delete then save the changes??? Is there a way to remove delete from the share/NTFS
permissions that will allow it to save? Thanks for any response, I'm stumped.
Larry
