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Insomn14c
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February 22, 2013
Question

Disable Indesign Lock Files

  • February 22, 2013
  • 6 replies
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Hi,

Is it possible to disable the .idlk files that are created when opening an InDesign document?

If not, is it possible to change the directory they are created in (the default is the same directory as the file is contained).

Looking forward to your replies

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    Captain Cloud
    Participant
    June 23, 2020

    Hello, 

     

    Our customer had the same issue.


    Unfortunately, Adobe still has no solution until now.

     

    Here is a small work around:

    (SharePoint Online Administrator only)

     

    Go to OneDrive Admin Center> Sync> Block certain file extensions

    Enter here idlk

     

    !!! Please note that if two people work on an InDesign project at the same time, nothing is overwritten here, but a copy is created. The file then exists twice, in different versions!!!

    Wave Digital Arts
    Wave Digital Arts
    Inspiring
    February 4, 2020

    Hi,


    Was this issue ever resolved? I've been having exactly the same problem with SharePoint and it's driving me crazy not being able to sync files when InDesign is open!

     

    I've tried a feature request, but the links in this thread no longer exist.

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    Community Expert
    LaubenderCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 4, 2020

    Hi,

    for bug reports and feature requests go to:

    https://indesign.uservoice.com/

     

    Regards,
    Uwe Laubender

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    vikash singhh69697750
    vikash singhh69697750
    Participant
    October 4, 2018

    Please post feature requests here so the product managers and engineers can see them:

    vikash singhh69697750
    vikash singhh69697750
    Participant
    October 4, 2018

    Hello i will do this work

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    Noble_Creative
    Participant
    July 7, 2015

    Posted a feature request asking for the Tilde to be changed to an Underscore, Starting the lock file with an underscore will automatically hide the lock file in Sharepoint making it not easily seen. I would like to point out that Office documents use a tilde for their temporary files so Obviously MS works some magic to allow for this on their own file types.Shocking I know

    Willi Adelberger
    Community Expert
    Willi AdelbergerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 22, 2013

    No, when a document is opened you will find the lock file on the same place. Why do you want to get rid of it? Others in the network or on your computer will see so that a specific file is open.

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    Insomn14cAuthor
    Participant
    February 22, 2013

    Trying to get it to work with our SharePoint solution.

    As the files create a ~filename~hash.idlk file, the tilde key isn't a valid character in SharePoint sites, so the file's can't be opened.

    SharePoint has the same built in functionality of stopping multiple users editing the same files so it isn't needed for us anyway.

    Steve Werner
    Community Expert
    Steve WernerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 22, 2013

    I seriously doubt that there's anyway to defeat InDesign's built-in method for creating lock files. You'll simply have to copy InDesign files from your SharePoint server onto your local drive before opening them.

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