ArmdCtzn Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Just when I thought I was starting to understand SketchUp, I get this "file is locked by another user" and I can only open things as read-only. Huh? What have I done? I have actually used SketchUp for the last few match descriptions and people really like the drawings. Any clue what I did wrong now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark R Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Can you send me the SKP file? email to me via profile and I'll take a look. I never came across this before...wondering if the file was not shared correctly...or was it one of your own files/drawing that mysteriously locked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark R Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 This might help...You can open it as read only and then "save as" to another file...then it should allow you to open without that error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanky Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Reboot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanky Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Or end task on the sketchup program in task manager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark R Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 I also discovered by trial and error...if you have sketchup file open already and it's hidden or minimized and you try to open the same file again at the same time by double clicking on it, you will get the "locked by another user" error. Error msg is a little misleading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 I also discovered by trial and error...if you have sketchup file open already and it's hidden or minimized and you try to open the same file again at the same time by double clicking on it, you will get the "locked by another user" error. Error msg is a little misleading. The same happens for me. I usually have it minimized and forget about it. It won't let me re open the same file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmdCtzn Posted June 23, 2011 Author Share Posted June 23, 2011 It has something to do with my laptop computer. On the desktop computer at work everything worked fine today. I think the problem is that I have SketchUp on an external hard drive, but when I go to open SketchUp now it is opening from my C drive on my laptop and giving me that file locked message every time. Aargh. It isn't just one particular file either, it happens no matter what I try to open in SketchUp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skydiver Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 It has something to do with my laptop computer. On the desktop computer at work everything worked fine today. I think the problem is that I have SketchUp on an external hard drive, but when I go to open SketchUp now it is opening from my C drive on my laptop and giving me that file locked message every time. Aargh. It isn't just one particular file either, it happens no matter what I try to open in SketchUp. Is it your Sketchup diagram that is saved on the external hard drive, or is it the Sketchup program? Also what anti-virus program are you using? Some of them are "slow" and written incorrectly and so they tend to keep the file locked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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