If a file is 'finger-printed'...

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... how do you find out which objects have caused it to become finger-printed?

[klinzey]

Do you mean fingerprinted or watermarked?

Resource files supplied by Vectorworks are fingerprinted for a specific product; the individual resources in the file are not.
Using a resource from a fingerprinted file will not fingerprint a new file.

For a watermarked file ALL resources in the file are watermarked and using any of those resources in another file will watermark the new file and all the resources in the new file.

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I have been sent a file that is 'fingerprinted' not 'watermarked'.

 

I know that there are files that are 'finger-printed' amongst the resources, but it would be odd to have a document fingerprinted unless they did a save as of a resource file.

 

I thought that it was content causing the issue but from you are saying they would have had to have created a file from an already fingerprinted file.

 

Does that mean if they create a new blank file, and copy data from the old file to the new, it will fix it?

[klinzey]

Yes, Importing the new resources into a new blank file would fix the fingerprint issue.
It sounds like they added resources to a resource file that was supplied by Vectorworks and then sent you that file.

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More than likely.  It was a student using 2019 whilst the office uses 2024...