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I'm looking for a way to check for writing access to an mxd upon the initiation of a python AddIn tool. My tool should only be enabled if the user has writing access to the mxd. I thought there was a way to check for read/write access using arcpy (or maybe os?) but it's lost on me now. I tried the following as a work-around (saving upon initiation):

class ToolClass2(object):
    def __init__(self):
        mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument ("CURRENT")
        try: mxd.save ()
        except IOError:
            pythonaddins.MessageBox ("The map document is locked.",
                                     "Map file locked", 0)
            self.enabled = False

However, this doesn't produce an IOError. Instead I get a warning box (below) from ArcMap and the try is successful and the except is ignored.

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I've also tried making use of os.access, but without results (os.access (mapPath, os.W_OK) returns True):

mapPath = mxd.filePath
if not os.access (mapPath, os.W_OK):
    pythonaddins.MessageBox ("The map document is locked.",
                             "Map file locked", 0)
    self.enabled = False

I've now realized that I was thinking of arcpy.TestSchemaLock, but according to the help this is only for feature classes, tables, and feature datasets.

Developing with version 10.4 but the end users will be 10.1.

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  • Just going to ask the obvious here, you have sufficient space on your hard drive? Also, we've had issues like this in a Citrix environment where the file server wasn't synchronizing with what we were seeing.
    – Fezter ♦
    Jul 18, 2017 at 4:33
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    I am almost sure you would need to use win32security from pywin32. stackoverflow.com/questions/896638/…
    – Alex Tereshenkov
    Jul 18, 2017 at 5:14
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    Just try to open it for write access and catch the IO exception and do something else, pass, timer, whatever. open( filepath, 'w' )
    – geodranic
    Jun 7, 2018 at 15:52
  • @geodranic this method produces the IOError regardless of the current ArcMap's session write access. I can try this method and get the error while still able to execute mxd.save ().
    – Emil Brundage
    Jul 1, 2019 at 20:35
  • What technique did you use to restrict access? Is this file on a network drive that a user can't edit, is it a read-only permission on the file itself? Is the user part of a particular security group? I'm not sure the answer changes depending on how you've restricted that file, but it might be useful to know.
    – derivative
    Feb 26, 2020 at 21:13

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