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pewill
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

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...
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Hannah
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3 years ago

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.

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pewill
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Thats really a pitty, it would make Dropbox the way to go for PDM / PLM 

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