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awaisqutab
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5 months ago

Most SolidWorks files in a shared folder open as read-only

I have a share folder on Dropbox with my clients and why mostly SolidWorks file opens as read-only
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5 months ago
awaisqutab wrote:

I have a share folder on Dropbox with my clients and why mostly SolidWorks file opens as read-only

How are you opening them? Via the website or via a folder sync'd to your machine?

If its the website this is expected behaviour as the browser downloads them and usually does that to 'make them safe' etc. 

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