Ya perhaps it can't edit the lock file.. I'll try to keep my eye one it, I have noticed the lack of a lock file, but hard to see when it actually disappears..
I am on windows 7, the server is an igloo so I think its running some linux? So does that mean it shouldn't be a connection problem? I'm going to try and just use my script to save the scene once, then just manually version up, or maybe try and run the save script from my machine instead of the network workgroup - see if that isloates the problem a bit Simon Reeves Freelance 3D VFX Artist London, UK *email: [email protected]* *website: http://www.simonreeves.com* * * On 10 April 2013 14:35, Angus Davidson <[email protected]> wrote: > Could you be at your maximum number of connections to the server ? > Normally that’s why you would use something like windows 2008 R2 Server to > work around those limitations. > > Scripts particularly if they call other scripts can very easily hit that > maximum on a plain windows 7 machine used as a file server. > > Kind regards > > Angus > > From: Morten Bartholdy <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Morten Bartholdy <[email protected]>, " > [email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday 10 April 2013 3:16 PM > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: Cannot save scene, locked by server? > > Same here - win7 x64, Softimage 2013 SP1 and several version back - > network win7 fileserver. > > > Morten > > > > > > > > Den 10. april 2013 kl. 15:06 skrev Jens Lindgren < > [email protected]>: > > I have had this problem a couple of times lately also... really > annoying. > Win 7 x64, Softimage 2013 SP1 and a EMC Isilon fileserver. > > /Jens > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Fabrice Altman < [email protected]> > wrote: > > > Assuming you’re on Windows, is this something that has started happening > suddenly ? > > Do you know of any recent config change made on the server ? > > > > > > *From:*[email protected] [mailto: > [email protected] ] *On Behalf Of* Simon Reeves > *Sent:* 10 April 2013 13:06 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Cannot save scene, locked by server? > > > > Its a bit intermittent too btw, it doesn't turn it into a shared copy > straight away every time.. Sometimes I seem to have a good run where it > doesn't sometimes every single time I try and save it complains.. > > > > > Simon Reeves > > Freelance 3D VFX Artist > > > > London, UK *email: [email protected] * * website: > http://www.simonreeves.com* > > > > > > On 10 April 2013 13:00, Simon Reeves < [email protected] > wrote: > > Hey everybody, > > > > I've been having a problem lately that I'm unable to save my scene as if I > opened a shared copy. It says > > "[scene] cannot be saved because it has been loaded as a shared copy.The > main user is" and there is no user listed. > > > > So I know what this window is, and I am suspecting the problem is that Im > saving via a script that is located on the server, so when I run the > script, maybe the SERVER is the new owner of the file? So locally I cannot > save it? > > That makes sense in my head, but if so, how do you avoid that problem, > I've worked places with save scripts like the one I made and they didn't > have the issue so hopefully there is a way around it.. > > > > I thought it was the deadline submission script as that does a 'save as' > too and that's also located on the server - same problem potentially. > > > > Cheers! > > Simon > > > > Simon Reeves > > Freelance 3D VFX Artist > > > > London, UK *email: [email protected] * * website: > http://www.simonreeves.com* > > > > > > > > > -- > Jens Lindgren > -------------------------- > Lead Technical Director > Magoo 3D Studios <http://www.magoo3dstudios.com/> > > > > > This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. > If you have received this communication in error, please notify us > immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate > this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised > signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the > University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message > may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal > views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and > opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements > between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless > the University agrees in writing to the contrary. > ** > >
