No read only warning when dwg already open

[CADMama]

There are two versions of AutoCAD running in a customer office. They have 2007 and 2008.
When a drawing is opened in 2007 and a guy opens the same drawing in 2008 he gets NO warning that the drawing file is already opened.

Has anyone else seen this or know of a way around it?

[jpaulsen]

I have not seen this. Yesterday I was using LDT 2007 and LDT 2008 on the same drawing. When I tried to open the drawing in 2008 it told me it was read-only.

[Opie]

Probably an operating system permissions issue.

See this thread, "No dwl file being created when opening file".

[bbapties]

does the "expert" variable effect this?...just a thought.

[ccowgill]

does the "expert" variable effect this?...just a thought.

no, expert doesnt, I have mine at 5 and it still lets me know if a drawing is read-only

[robert.1.hall72202]

Thought this would be useful (I didn't have a clue):

EXPERT

Type: Integer
Saved in: Not-saved
Initial value: 0

Controls whether certain prompts are issued.

0
Issues all prompts normally.

1
Suppresses “About to regen, proceed?” and “Really want to turn the current layer off?” (-LAYER)

2
Suppresses the preceding prompts and “Block already defined. Redefine it?” (-BLOCK) and “A drawing with this name already exists. Overwrite it?” (SAVE or WBLOCK).

3
Suppresses the preceding prompts and those issued by the LINETYPE command line (-LINETYPE) if you try to load a linetype that's already loaded or create a new linetype in a file that already defines that linetype.

4
Suppresses the preceding prompts and those issued by UCS Save and VPORTS Save if the name you supply already exists.

5
Suppresses the prompt, “That name is already in Use, redefine it?” issued by the -DIMSTYLE Save option when you supply the name of an existing dimension style.

Suppresses the same prompt issued by the -SCALELISTEDIT Add option.