In our office, the revit standard library is (owned) by one person, all families can not be edited. If you try to edit and save a file you get a warning that it is a read only or owned by someone else. We tried to relinquish all elements. That didn't work. Its on every family. Is there an Admin lock or something that has been turned on by accident? :coffee:
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As far as I know, all the OOTB families are locked. If you edit one, you have to do a save as to save it.
I'd recommend saving custom families in a separate folder on your network, far away from any OOTB libraries.Dan -
None of the libraries are locked by anything inside Revit. Its more than likely a permissions error on IT's part, that is only letting the file creator/owner have edit and modify rights to the files. Seen it a bunch of times.Comment
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That's most likely a Network-level permissions setting.
Since you are saying the "library is (owned) by one person" I would assume that was intentional. Isn't that kind of the point of one person owning the library?
Families do not use Worksets, therefore there is no "relinquish."Dave Plumb
BWBR Architects; St Paul, MN
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Aaron, is that with OOTB families? I've never been able to save over an OOTB family.DanComment
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Keep OOTB families untouched. Copy the entire folder, right click, Properties, under General tab->Attributes clear Read-only and hit apply.Last edited by PijPiwo; August 1, 2013, 08:21 PM.Comment
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It is a network setting. not revit. It's a Permissions error. Thanks guysComment
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My guess (Dan) is it happens to be where they are installed, and your user permissions (or something similar). There isnt write protection on them. Back in my first revit days (v8.1) it was a constant source of frustration, as everyones OOTB lib was on their C drive, and they all had different versions of the same families.
Now (thank god) i dont even download the OOTB library anymore. I had to have Kirk email me two family templates when i realized i was missing them, two months ago.
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Fwiw, standard installation (accepting default settings) makes the library folders read only so they are harder to overwrite accidentally.
In the six phases of a Revit user we should add another description to step six (Zen of Revit): "You don't even download the OotB content anymore"
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I stand corrected! (Interesting, and very good to know!) I'll have to dig through the Install/Deployment creator and see what checkbox you have to hit that makes them non-read-only... But i suppose it could be that i download them seperately now, that i havent noticed. But i remember back in the DP days we had that issue of people having different versions, but then again we were all local admins so we could have just "unchcked" read only, too. LOLComment
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