It says this when I attempt to open it:

Opening protected maps disabled!(F:\Starcraft\maps\Mine\snipersblind\SnipersBaldLocks.scm). Compile with -IGNORE_PROTECTION option set

Just as a sidenote, I used OSMap and opened it, and it works.. but it confused me, because this is a map I just started making from scratch and saved and tried re-opening and got this.

I would like to know why this is for future reference, because if I have to re-open after saving and get this again I'll be mad due to it renaming my locations/units.

it usually only says that if a map is protected or unreadable... Don't forget people protect maps for a reason.

It was my map Sam, I had just started it less than an hour ago and only saved it using SCMDraft 2. I got done with class and went to start it back up and that happened.

There used to be a bug where if you opened the map in another editor then braught it back to scm draft 2 it would do that.

Not that this is an answer to your problem, just throwing that bit in..

It used to happen to me all the time, but I only use scm draft 2 now

did you try unprotecting it? It could fix the corrupted part of the map..

anyone know how to do this..?

i dont think its possible to ignore protection, and do you have the latest scmdraft damien?

Well, SCM Draft is actually made to respect protection, even though it could easily read past it, however, the public versions don't do that, that error was probably something you could do if you had the source for SCM Draft.

ScmDraft (at least older versions) give that error when you try to open a write protected (file property) map.