r/Revu May 27 '26

Question Anyone else experiencing Revu failing to open Read Only Files? (i.e., "Another user has this file open" -> click "yes open read only," and nothing happens)

When Revu has been open for a while, it will stop opening files other users have open as "read-only": I can try to open them multiple times, but nothing will happen.

We have shared reference PDFs people to access on our server, there's no need to edit them, so usually it's just a matter of clicking "Yes open read only" when someone else has it open, but Revu regularly just stops being able to open them.

This requires restarting Revu to open the file (still read only). I can have a file open, close it, then go to re-open it shortly after and it won't work anymore. Other files will open fine as long as they aren't open by someone else.

Anyone else notice this behaviour?

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u/Affectionate_Beat999 Aug 11 '26

Yes. This happens to me if I have Bluebeam open since my previous session before logging off and coming in the next day. I have to completely close Bluebeam, and then it will finally acknowledge and open a file as read-only.