Well, I lied here is option 3: by no means is it the quick way but its fun :) We have had it where it says that Susan has the document open but I know she doesn't. the process winword must be stuck open on someone's computer.

The second one does not always work, but its a fighting chance. or send out a restart command overnight to all boxes to sever all ties with a shared network.

This is one reason I can't stress that all shared excel files need to be set to 'Shared.' This is pretty common for excel, you have 2 options open it in read-only and copy it to another spreadsheet. The very fact I can rename the file while it is supposedly 'in use' tells me that something is getting quite confused here.Īny ideas what I can do other than reboot the server? The other things i have tried is stop/start the WIndows Search service and rebuild the index. If the file has a different name, it works fine. As soon as I rename the file back to the original name, the same error occurs. I was running out of ideas so decided to copy the file, delete the original and then rename the copied file to the same name as the original. However, there is NO sign of the file being opened. Normally I would just log on the file server, open computer management > Shared folders > Open Files and close the open file. The user stated left the company a long time ago, but in my experience it is not that unusual for Excel/Word to report the incorrect user. A user is reporting that they cannot open an Excel file (on a shared folder) as it is locked for editing by another user.

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