@sheila5 They are supposed to be locked, in a manner of speaking, the placeholder file is supposed to prevent us from rendering the same file, in other words prevent it from being duplicated. But Google Drive is kinda wonky and doesn’t synchronize well so Blender isn’t seeing the file as being there therefore it goes ahead and renders it anyways. That plus other little glitches here and there makes Drive a little annoying, but it’s ok, it is getting the job done fairly well.