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Is there a way to (cleanly) administratively unedit a file? I periodically have users who blow out their sandboxes and lose the ability to un-edit a file that they've forgotten about. I loathe having watch enabled, but that's current policy - so I have to live with it. Currently, I go into the repository and hand edit the fileattr, but it gets ugly and I don't think it's all that safe. I use an editor that understands unix line ends and gives me a warning when the open file changes, so it cuts down on the danger, but still. Also note that we've been having issues (triggered by above events) where the user (say, "Joe") will check out a module, try and edit it, it fails informing them that "Joe" is already editing the file. I'd like to see CVS perform some kind of check to solve this on checkout. Similar thing happens if one user is moving back and forth between two machines with sandboxes on both. In this instance, I'd like to see Update work to solve the problem. We're using: Server - WinNT 4.0 running CVSNT 1.11.1.3 build 57g Clients - Win2k running TortoiseCVS 1.2.2 SSPI protocol __________ "...she danced danced down the street like a dingledogie, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'" -Jack Kerouac "On the Road"