It has come to our attention that there was a recent upgrade to the Microsoft Server software that contains code to increase the security of the server. This is the cause of the lock file being created. We are looking into a way to alter PlotLog's code to get the lock file to not be opened when retrieving records from a table in the database file. In the meantime the best workaround is to revert back to using the project.txt file as the source of the projects to select from in the dropdown list in the PlotLog dialog. The easiest way to set this up is as follows:

1. Open Microsoft Access and open the database file.
2. Open the Project Data table and click on the header of the first column, highlighting all of the values in that column. You may optionally alphabetize the column first. This is easy to do, there is a button at the top that does that for you.
3. Copy them into the clipboard.
4. Open project.txt in Notepad. It should be in the Projects folder, which should be in the PlotLog program file folder. This is the folder where you installed PlotLog, not the folder that contains the setup files that you downloaded from the website. If there is no Projects folder create one, open it, and create a file named project.txt and open it in Notepad. If there is a Projects folder, open it and then open project.txt in Notepad. If there is no project.txt file in the Projects folder, create one and open it in Notepad.
5. If there is any text in project.txt, delete all of it.
6. Make the first line say Select Project
7. Make the second line say N/A
8. Paste the records from the clipboard into the third line of project.txt. This will list all of the projects, one project per line, in project.txt. You may Save the file.
9. In AutoCAD, use the PLConfig command at the AutoCAD command prompt.
10. Click on Advanced Configuration.
11. Change the source of the projects by clicking on the Browse button for Projects and navigate to the project.txt file and select it.
12. Click Accept and Save.

If the configuration file is on the server, this change will work immediately for all computers running PlotLog. If you installed PlotLog on the local hard drives, you need to use the PLConfig command on each computer separately.

If you are using the Microsoft Access database to create your reports, you will have to enter new projects into both the project.txt file and the Project Data table of the database.

We will upload an update when the database connectivity issue has been resolved.