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Is there a way to set a file to read-only?
My team is using Dropbox for creating and storing designs. A design is opened in Autodesk Inventor, and a design can exist out of a lot of components, and every component is a file.
The design als...
Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHi pewill, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
You can use the file locking feature to lock individual files on your account. It can't be done in bulk to all files on a folder, however, you can do them manually.
If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.
Thank you for your reply!
I investigated that solution but it cannot handle the job:
- I can lock it, that is working, so others cannot work on it. But I stil can save and change the file not knowing it.
- it is beeing unlocked after saving.
- It's a lot of work to do it on each file
I also checked yesterday something different: changing the property to read-only. Problem: it is not changing the file on the computers of the other team-members. Is there a solution for that?
- Hannah
Hey pewill, thanks for your feedback on the locking feature.
If you're referring to changing the properties through your OS (right-click > Properties etc.), it's not something that Dropbox can control, so you might need to look into it your computer's manufacturers for more info.
Thats really a pitty, it would make Dropbox the way to go for PDM / PLM
