Hello,
There are many blocking SCC applications (e.g. Borland StarTeam) and simply many files that are readonly.

NetBeans disables writing to a file that is readonly. This is madness. All you have to do is disable the save option and allow people to edit the file and then use save as.

Other editors have a menu option to enable updating documents that are readonly, i.e. the user can choose to ignore the readonly state and can then save as later.

Not having this means you have to use a file explorer (or start up the SCC) to find the file then make it writable just to edit the file.

Indeed it might just be that you want to create a new file based on the readonly file and simply edit the file and use save as rather than copy and rename the file first.

thanks.