Revit central file worksharing problem

[eric]

I went to set up a file this morning as central on our local network to create a shareable project, and have found it will only let us edit elements by checking out Workset 1 as an individual user.  That then prohibits another user from working on that same file.  We have been perpetually getting the error "You do not have permission to edit the element".  If we leave the workset set to "no" in the "editable" column, nothing works.  Typically, in the past we have been able to just "borrow" elements at the individual user level w/o having to own the worksets.  We are in 2019, but downloaded 2020, and it seems to work the same in there, too.  

What are we doing wrong?

[RobDraw]

Is everything checked to relinquish after synching?

[dferreira-blackwell · Accepted solution]

open the central model, synch with everything checked out. Create new locals for everyone. see if that works.

[eric]

They are all grayed out, including borrowed elements.  

I went back to an older file from a couple months ago that was workshared, and everything in there worked as expected, I can move elements and in the workshared dialog my name shows up as a borrower, but not an owner.  In these new files (also tested with a OOTB revit sample file) it won't let me borrow, only check out the full workset as an owner.  

[hmunsell]

can you post the file so we can see if the issue follows the file. 

[eric]

This seems like it might have fixed it.  I made the worksets editable, synced, then closed them, synced again, went and made a new local, and now I show up as a borrower, not an owner when trying to edit things.  

Honestly, though, I am ready to bite the bullet on the BIM360 to get the cloud hosted models.  We tested that and it seemed to have a lot less workflow issues with central files.