File Locking

[brent_e_barbour]

Inventor 5.3 would lock files when they were in use. Nobody could remame, delete, or modify a file when someone else had it open. That's not so since we started using Inventor 6.0. Just to test this, I opened an assembly, and I renamed one of the parts contained in the assembly through windows explorer. It would let me rename the file with no problem. Only when I would try to access the part in the assembly would the session crash. Also two users can have the same file open at the same time and both making conflicting changes and each time one can save over the other's work. THIS IS SCARY!!! Is there a setting in Inventor 6.0 somewhere that will enable file locking so file can't be touch when they're in use?

[Anonymous]

you need to use Shared mode or Semi-isolated mode
and check out the drawings that you are working on. while the file is "checked
out" no one else can make changes to the file.

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Inventor
5.3 would lock files when they were in use. Nobody could remame, delete, or
modify a file when someone else had it open. That's not so since we started
using Inventor 6.0. Just to test this, I opened an assembly, and I renamed one
of the parts contained in the assembly through windows explorer. It would let
me rename the file with no problem. Only when I would try to access the part
in the assembly would the session crash. Also two users can have the same file
open at the same time and both making conflicting changes and each time one
can save over the other's work. THIS IS SCARY!!! Is there a setting in
Inventor 6.0 somewhere that will enable file locking so file can't be touch
when they're in use?