Re: Problems with XControl
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Then do it. And back 'em up to an archive somewhere. If someone overwrites 'em, you pull a clean copy from your backup/archive.
Even if you could read-only it in the console, you really should have multiple copies backed up. Just like any other digital files - multiple copies are your friend!
And if your one of these theater guys with large, complex, complicated and numerous scene files, some sort of version control system would probably be HUGELY beneficial. If you have any beer swilling *nix programmer friends, ask them to set you up a repository along the lines of subversion - and how to use it 
Once you get the hang of it, they are handy for much more than just programming. But they are definitely very geeky to get going and used to initially.
