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Someone called me the other day asking me for advice on another file system for Windows. They said they were having a problem with NTFS - permissions. So I said, "well what's the problem?" The guy said that his engineers (as soon as he said that I sat down because I knew what was coming up...) were able to delete from their network folders. I said, "are you using LandDesktop AutoCAD?" He said, "yeah." Well I've been through this before. Apparently in this town it's like really easy to piss off engineers and I've noticed 2 companies who have had trouble with employees who decide to mass delete files upon their leaving. Not termination...just leaving the company because they got a new job. The IT guy that called me previously had some issue where one of his engineers walked off campus with a thumb drive of some major drawings and next thing you know their competitors had their product at a cheaper cost from a firm where that engineer started his new job. So back to my story, I explained that they are going to need a 'vault' like system (I'm pretty sure Land makes one themselves - or someone does- at a considerable cost.) He then took an hour to explain to me that it was too expensive to purchase that software so he needed to change the filesystem and he was sure that he could fix the problem. There wasn't a filesystem in the world that could fix that problem because Land tends to make temp files in the working directory of the original drawing and it needs to delete them once the user saves the item. With a vault they could control who checked what out, made what revisions, and then who checked it back in, and if someone didn't check it back in then they'd know who it was. In fact, I don't think there's a system setting you can change (like the software would save the file to a local directory prior to opening, dump the temp files in that same working directory, and then when it's saved trash the local copies and save to the network drive) because they want to sell their super expensive vault program. I don't think other similar field types of software have this issue. OrCAD makes a working directory on the local drive and the other software the engineers at Dub's use (Microsystems? I can't remember since they have a guy there who handles that exclusively) allows restrictive permissions....but whatever.
He knew the answer to the problem. What confuses me is with the trouble they have had before isn't their data and intellectual property worth it? I realize software is expensive but this company can afford 200 grand a year in licensing for the software - they can't afford to lose their stuff.