https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/Library-Book-Files-save-as-Scratch-files/m-p/110113#M17608 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content">We are increasingly finding that, when we resave an LBK file, the original file remains intact and a new 'scratch file' is created. There is no warning issued - so we are only aware of the problem if we happen to notice that recent changes are not saved when next opening the LBK file.<BR /><BR />To avoid the problem, we are working on our desktops, and dragging the files back to the network at 'close of play' - but this is far from ideal.<BR /><BR />We are running on Macs under OS X, networked to a Windows server - and think that the problem may be to do with our server. But is the 'scratch' file created by the server, or by Plotmaker?</DIV> Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:00:33 GMT Anonymous 2025-02-10T15:00:33Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/Library-Book-Files-save-as-Scratch-files/m-p/110113#M17608 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content">We are increasingly finding that, when we resave an LBK file, the original file remains intact and a new 'scratch file' is created. There is no warning issued - so we are only aware of the problem if we happen to notice that recent changes are not saved when next opening the LBK file.<BR /><BR />To avoid the problem, we are working on our desktops, and dragging the files back to the network at 'close of play' - but this is far from ideal.<BR /><BR />We are running on Macs under OS X, networked to a Windows server - and think that the problem may be to do with our server. But is the 'scratch' file created by the server, or by Plotmaker?</DIV> Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:00:33 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/Library-Book-Files-save-as-Scratch-files/m-p/110113#M17608 Anonymous 2025-02-10T15:00:33Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/Library-Book-Files-save-as-Scratch-files/m-p/110114#M17609 <BLOCKQUOTE>Keith wrote:<BR />But is the 'scratch' file created by the server, or by Plotmaker?</BLOCKQUOTE> the scratch file would be created by plotmaker because (more than likely) it is unable to delete the original. this would mean a permissions problem on your server . . . which you are actually making worse by having the file change ownership every time it's copied back to the server! <IMG src="https://community.graphisoft.com/legacyfs/online/emojis/icon_biggrin.gif" style="display : inline;" /> <BR /> <BR /> i've never seen a windows server package, but i always had our mac server set to write the permissions of a file/folder based on the enclosing folder's permissions ('inherit from parent') rather than from the user that is saving the file . . .<BR /> <BR /> i'd start by looking for something similar on your windows server . . .<BR /> <BR /> HTH<BR /> ~/archiben Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:30:26 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/Library-Book-Files-save-as-Scratch-files/m-p/110114#M17609 __archiben 2005-06-23T23:30:26Z