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@klinzey Thank you -- I'll do some digging and reach out to you if I need to. I appreciate your help.

@klinzey Thanks for your response — the error I’m getting is not the watermark, it’s that I can’t open the file at all. Can you confirm that this is because the file was created in a pirated version of Vectorworks? I’m happy to send the file and a screen shot of the error.

@Jesse Cogswell Thanks — I’m very familiar with the watermark question, this is a new error that will not let me open the file at all. I’m on the most up to date version of 2021, so it’s not the newer version problem either. I can understand this error if the file was made by a pirated version of Vectorworks, but not if it was made by a legit student version. @zoomer The theater world and the commercial world operate on very different budgets. I use Vectorworks for theater, where it’s much harder to make enough money to purchase a professional license when you’re just starting out.

I recently tried to open a file shared with me by a collaborator and got the following error message: "This file was saved in the student edition of Vectorworks. Files saved in the student edition cannot be opening in the professional version." Can this really be true? This will make collaboration in theater impossible, not to mention exclude many people who don't have the means to purchase a professional license from work opportunities.