We have been encountering a really annoying problem increasingly over the last few months:
Several of our users on one particular project get the "Central File is Busy" message even when no one is synchronising at the time. Traditionally you might get this message if you tried to synchronise when someone else was already in the middle of doing so. But on this project we regularly get the message when you try to do any command, even just selecting an object (I guess Revit tries to refresh the properties dialog box); the message might stay for 3 or 30 seconds, and will pop up again with the next command - so it effectively paralyses your workflow. Several people on the project might be affected, but not everyone. This problem is now starting to affect other projects, but we can see no real pattern to it. Our IT guys have checked for backups and other potential network glitches - nothing doing.
We have Worksharing monitor installed so that we can tell who/when someone is synchronising.
First encountered the problem on v2010, but its worse on v2011 (inc SP2).
All PCs running on 64bit XP with 8+ Gb RAM; although we are now switching to win 7.
Help. Any ideas? There is another similar thread in this forum, but its a different problem.