Topic: Lock ctb

[AUTOKAD]

Good morning

is it possible to lock your ctb plotstyle? so nobody can change it.
thanks

[Alan Cullen]

Possibly by changing the name to something that only you know...e.g. ...... myname.ctb

[Matt__W]

Good morning

is it possible to lock your ctb plotstyle? so nobody can change it.
thanks

Put it on a network location with read-only access (for others).  You would have read-write access.  Unless you're trying to prevent yourself from modifying it?   

[jonesy]

Good morning

is it possible to lock your ctb plotstyle? so nobody can change it.
thanks

Put it on a network location with read-only access (for others).  You would have read-write access.  Unless you're trying to prevent yourself from modifying it?  

Thats what I have done in the past, but also to stop yourself "accidentally" changing it, you could also change the file properties to be read only...

... or are you looking for a coding method of doing this?

[AUTOKAD]

Here my story: we have a standard ctb, color 8 has 0.0 penweights. somehow, somebody has changed this as .35 penweights. Anybody can do this, since ctb file is open for everybody. I was just thinking, if theres a way to lock this file and just make it accesible to one person who is handling it so things like this wont happen. its pretty hard to discipline everybody with 'standards'. I  guess locking it is a way to keep everybody in one place.

coding or any method is welcome. Thank you.

[Matt__W]

Locking down the network is the easiest/fastest way.

[M-dub]

Locking down the network is the easiest/fastest way.

Agreed... This is what we do.
People can modify a .ctb file, but they won't be able to save it in the same location.

[AUTOKAD]

were a small company. we dont really have an in house IT and most of the time our drafters are our own IT. I dont think they know how to lock the network.

[Matt__W]

were a small company. we dont really have an in house IT and most of the time our drafters are our own IT. I dont think they know how to lock the network.

Then they probably don't know how to UNLOCK the network, so go for it!!

[Bob Wahr]

Chage the properties on the file to read only.  Save a copy somewhere.  If someone changes the file.  Recopy it.

[AUTOKAD]

how will i know if someone change the file?. i only noticed it or knew it when the print comes out. and who knows what else had been changed.

[M-dub]

Well, one way would be to look at the date stamp of the .ctb file.

[VovKa]

i remember that i've seen the same question somewhere
the easyest way is to play with ntfs security permissions, allowing 'full control' to one trusted user, and 'read' to everybody else