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by moussoon

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As of right now, only one person at a time can open a file in Visio 2000. When the second person tries to open the file, the error message "An error (1532) occurred during the action Open Saved File. DOS Sharing violation." It then lets you click OK, and doesn't open anything. The people who wish to share the file all have the same permissions on the network (full permissions to do whatever we want within the folder), and have already tried making it read-only to anyone but the creator. This didn't work either.

Can someone please help me?

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by curacao_dejavu

I remember the problem for visio 9x. at that time I nver figured it out.
Now check the MS KB Article ID: Q258467
for how to set visio up forr a network installation, maybe after the install multiple persons can open a file.

succes.

Leopold

by curacao_dejavu

Keep the following issues in mind when using Visio on a network:

You can share stencil files so that multiple users can access them at once.
However, when you share stencil files, it is important that users not open
them in read/write mode. (When a Visio drawing file is opened in read/write
mode, no other network user can access the file.)

By default, the read-only attribute is set for stencil files to prevent
users from opening them in read/write mode. You can also set the network
Visio directory to read-only to prevent users from opening the files in
read/write mode.

by moussoon

We ended up saving one file that the administrator works on, then saving that file as a stencil and deleting the old stencil. At least we can share the read only information. Thanks!

by ebob

I don't think you can do what you want, which seems to be: having multiple people access the same copy of a VSD file.

The reason for this is that Visio, like most apps, opens the file for read/write. When multiple accesses to one file are attempted, the application says "but what if more than one person tries to make a change - how will I deal with multiple updates???" This generates the sharing violation.

Your users MIGHT be able to open a copy in READ-ONLY mode. Have them give that a try at the Open File dialogue (a radio button on the right). Have them try that after one person has the file open in read/write mode, too.

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