Repeat steps d and e for each occurrence of Winword. On your iPhone, use the backspace key to delete the current name, and then enter the new one. You can turn on tracked changes on the Review tab. If they are, see your product documentation to complete these steps. This is by-design and prevents other users overwriting your work, or even worse causing document corruption.
For example, the owner file for Document. Perhaps it was not configured properly initially? I went back into Word and reversed the step by step mail merge process, closed word and all good. To resolve this issue, first confirm that another user on the network does not have the document open. The effect was instant, so I suspect Indexing service had deadlocked on the file in question. Our network admin made a couple of changes to the way the F5 device was load balancing and we have no longer had the locking issue. Additional note for documents shared over a network: If there are multiple people that could be editing the doc, it can sometimes be hard to figure out who might have the doc open. I have not seen any evidence that our users are experiencing a crash beforehand.
The owner file is located in the same folder as the document that you tried to open. Years ago I demo'd an issue on a file server to their makers. It may help to give an overview of what happens during normal use of Word. This error usually occurs when you have been editing a document directly from the Sharepoint and your system or the office application crash or lock up. As shown on , the best way to find the answer is to use Computer Management on the system that hosts the shared file. It seems to be locked not only for me but also for others. This may occur if one or more of the following conditions are true: Word previously quit improperly and, therefore, did not delete the owner file.
Start Windows Explorer, and then browse to the folder that contains the document file that you tried to open when you received the error message. If the app still appears to be open, touch the app icon, and then swipe up. With Office 2003 it is not a full integration with SharePoint 2007 because Office 2003 was out prior to SharePoint 2007. Anyway what solved our problem was by turning the details tab off in Explorer this is under Windows 7 - click Organise where the menu bar is normally, then Layout, then make sure Details is unticked - and also Preview by the sounds of it. Best guess is that Sharepoint Online loses sync state and file lock info for new files. Thanks for contributing an answer to SharePoint Stack Exchange! I've rebooted etc, sharepoint also says that it's locked by my computer.
To do so, follow these steps. Repeat steps d and e for each occurrence of Winword. There are several ways to. I have seen the above. If an Office file is marked Final, you will need to make a copy to enter your changes from your mobile device.
There is no SharePoint expert anywhere in my little experience whose heart hasn't bled one way or the other. I am and cannot seem to solve. If an Office file is marked Final, you can easily turn off this feature in the Office 2016 applications by clicking Edit Anyway. I can confirm that this bug which it simply is is still alive in SharePoint 2010. If it does, I'll ask our infrastructure guys to monitor the network traffic to identify possible causes. Every machine has it's own Office installation.
Just like lvirden, we get a growing number of reports each day by end users on this problem and yet no solution at all by Microsoft. I've seen this error today, when another user genuinely did have the file open. We had been using cookie-based load balancing. To do so, follow these steps. We found the issue thanks in part to benday saying dfs, thus forcing me to ask the Sys Admin a question about it! For example, the owner file for Document.
The owner file is located in the same folder as the document that you tried to open. When we try to open the excel file directly from Excel navigating to the SharePoint location , we get the message that the file is locked for editing by 'another user'. I am the original poster of this thread. It will quit after a few seconds. I found the problem by downloading. Watching the network traffic with Fiddler is what led us to our load balancer as the culprit.
When you start Word, Word creates a selection of hidden temporary files, in various locations on your hard drive. If the document is in use, open the document as read-only. Are you using Office 2003 or Office 2007? Be aware the installer comes with OpenCandy adware, just uncheck it while installing or use the portable version. He's not the author and he doesn't have it open. Our solution, unfortunately, has been to get rid of SharePoint. Document Template If you were using a document template that was stored somewhere other than the User Templates folder when Word crashed, then you will need to remove the temporary file associated with the template in that folder.