File still locked (in-use) by archiCAD after closing

[Anonymous]

Hey Everybody,

Recently 1 user's computer in our office has been leaving every file that he works on locked after he has saved and closed the file in ArchiCAD. When another person in our office goes to open the file, the file is seen as being "in use" even though he saved and closed the document.

Has anyone seen this before or have any idea what is causing this?

The computer in question is a Windows XP Pro machine will all the latest updates and Archicad 8.1 v2c. The problem is reproducible when you just close the document and leave archicad open, or exit archicad completely.

[Anonymous]

I assume the files are on a server. Mac, Windows, or Linux?

It sounds like it could be a permissions issue.

[Anonymous]

Good call!

It seemed that all of the files in question had read and write but no execute privileges for the group staff. Fixing the privileges seemed to work. I'll post back here if it didn't.

Thanks again,
Phil