How do you unlock a Work Environment Profile?

[Laura Yanoviak]

AC Help is of no help...

I've created a custom installation package via Graphisoft's recommendations, which automatically loads our office's WE profiles when installing AC10 on individual computers. This is nice; however, the loaded WE profiles are locked. Since locked profiles cannot be deleted, how do I unlock them in order to update as needed?

[Geoff Briggs]

On the Mac the profile xml files are locked in the Finder so I suspect the same would be true with windows. Why not just remove/delete those profiles manually by navigating to where they are stored?

[Anonymous]

Laura,

Did you ever figure out a way to remove unwanted profiles from all the work environments sections? Some are locked and seem to have no means to delete.

Thanks in advance.

[JaredBanks]

Let's revive this. There is a certain add-on company that creates new work environment schemes and locks them. Even when you uninstall the add-ons the schemes stay. Anyone know how to get rid of them?

[Matt Balaam]

I had this same issue when I created an installation package.

In order to remove the locked profiles (on a PC, not sure about Mac):

1. Close all instances of ArchiCAD.
2. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\Program Files\Graphisoft\ArchiCAD 18\Defaults\ArchiCAD\WorkEnvironment
3. Go through all of the subfolders and delete the unwanted profile XML files.
4. Go back to Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\Users\Your User Name\AppData\Roaming\Graphisoft\ArchiCAD-64 18.0.0 AUS R1 (or your local version)\WorkEnvironment.
5. Go through all of the subfolders and delete the unwanted profile XML files.
6. Reopen ArchiCAD and the locked profiles should be gone.

Keep in mind that AppData is often a hidden folder. If you can't see it simply type that folder manually into the address bar and hit Enter.

I found that you have to delete them from both locations. If you only delete them from your user profile ArchiCAD will keep making them again each time you start the program.

[JaredBanks]

Thanks. This gets me so close, but there must be one step or slight change for mac users. I feel like I should be seeing everything, but of course what I need is still invisible. So frustrating!

[Eduardo Rolon]

Download Onyx
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx
and use it to turn all invisible files visible.

[JaredBanks]

Cool app, but didn't reveal what I needed. Very curious.

[Matt Balaam]

JaredBanks wrote:
Thanks. This gets me so close, but there must be one step or slight change for mac users. I feel like I should be seeing everything, but of course what I need is still invisible. So frustrating!

Can you search the entire computer (including hidden files etc.) for the relevant XML files and delete them? The Work Environment window in ArchiCAD will let you know what name each part is saved under.

[JaredBanks]

no luck.