Hi Bob -
You've encountered a bug that we've been living with since X5. I'd be obliged if you'd report it, as I'd love to see Adobe finally fix it!
The problem is specific to rhtemplate.apj and, at least as far as RH6, does not affect the other apj files. All apj files, including rhtemplate.apj *do* need to go into source control. You are probably just going to have to learn to live with teh rhtemplate.apj annoyance.
I think the problem has to do with having multiple templates. RH will insist on checking RH template out to you when you do a save (either explicit or implicit). While you have the file checked out, other authors can open the project and do work, but they won't be able to close their project as long as you have the file checked out. As RSC administrator, I used to get a lot of calls requesting that I do an uncheckout of the rhtemplate.apj file so that Writer X could close his project! Now those calls rarely occur, because everyone has gotten into the habit of doing...
**THIS WORKAROUND**
1. Writer opens the project.
2. Writer immediately does a "Save All," which automatically checks out rhtemplate.apj.
3. Writer immediately does a "Check In All" or else explicitly checks in rhtemplate.apj.
4. That's it. The rhtemplate.apj file will behave itself for the rest of the session. (For that writer. Every writer who acesses the project needs to do this, every time.)
5. Next session, return to step 1.
HTH,
G
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