topic read-only shapefiles? in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/read-only-shapefiles/m-p/182665#M10311 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there a way to make an independent shapefile&nbsp; read-only - so that people will be able to see it but not edit it? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I need to send this shapefile to my clients in order to help them create their own shapefiles which should overlap (their networks overlap my infrastructure), but I don't want my clients to modify my "basemap" shapefile. I do not want to lock my entire geodatabase, just this shape I' sending them. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you for any solution, </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Ligia Gafitescu</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:51:46 GMT LigiaGafitescu 2012-03-19T13:51:46Z read-only shapefiles? https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/read-only-shapefiles/m-p/182665#M10311 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there a way to make an independent shapefile&nbsp; read-only - so that people will be able to see it but not edit it? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I need to send this shapefile to my clients in order to help them create their own shapefiles which should overlap (their networks overlap my infrastructure), but I don't want my clients to modify my "basemap" shapefile. I do not want to lock my entire geodatabase, just this shape I' sending them. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you for any solution, </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Ligia Gafitescu</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:51:46 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/read-only-shapefiles/m-p/182665#M10311 LigiaGafitescu 2012-03-19T13:51:46Z Re: read-only shapefiles? https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/read-only-shapefiles/m-p/182666#M10312 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>could you just mark the shapefile read only in the operating system?&nbsp; It's not secure, but it will keep honest people honest - I.E. it won't </SPAN><SPAN style="text-decoration:underline;">accidentally </SPAN><SPAN>get changed.&nbsp; You mentioned that this is an independent shapefile, but then you state you don't want the entire geodatabase locked down, so I'm not sure if you are meaning this is a feature class file in your geodatabase or a truly independent shapefile... but if it is the .shp, .shx, and .dbf set of files then you should be able to use the operating system to mark them read only.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:26:09 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/read-only-shapefiles/m-p/182666#M10312 TerrySilveus 2012-03-20T17:26:09Z