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Anne Bonham wrote: >From the docs it sounds like watched files automatically get coppied to your >working copy in a read-only state. > >I have enabled watching of some files and it seems to work (if I list the >watchers, it tells me who is watching it), but it is not making the watched >files read-only. Should it? Or am I misunderstanding this? > The files only get set to read-only when doing a checkout, not when doing a normal update, and not when setting the watch. I.e. if you set "watch on", then on the *next* checkout the file will be read-only. A workaround is to delete the file(s) in your sandbox, then do an update. -Torsten