Dwg file lock - NOT

[IFRs]

I'm having a devil of a time with Autocad's file locking not working. When I open a dwg file, half of the time the file is locked it is not. When it is not, someone else can open the file, make changes and save it while I have it open! Then, when I go to save my changes AutoCAD says it is read only and tough luck! I can see if the file is locked by using AutoCad's SHEETSET. Does anyone else have this issue?

 

[ohiocad]

We've had it do that before, but only on occasion. Working the exact same way from one day to the next, occurs once every three or four weeks.

Haven't found a cause, and as a work around, end up doing a save-as, then comparing the two sheets back and forth trying to make sure the current changes from both files end up in the final dwg. Quite time consuming and more than a bit of a headache.

Not much of a work-around, sorry. Have looked into network errors, where it drops connection to one of the stations, write access to folders, etc, just shots in the dark. No idea for the cause.

 

[MiketheEngineer]

Call Auto Cad??

 

[IFRs]

Not yet, but this is happening all over our company and it is extraordinarily frustrating.