Excel 2000 - Read-Only Problem

[LDL]

Starting this morning, when a user opens many (maybe all) the files on our
file server in her My Docs folder, she gets a message the file is locked for
editing. The only solution is to save the file in a new location, go back
to the My Docs folder and delete the file and move the file from the new
location. It won't let me save over the existing file. We're also getting
an file system error which creates the file with in.2 as an extension. Has
anyone seen this? The PC was restarted several times, I cleared out the Temp
folder. Any ideas? Thanks, Diane

 

[Guest]

We get this on our Network too. Normally, when the last user closes the file the file server will release the file. But when it doesn't, you have to ask your Network Administrator to do it for you.

 

[RagDyer]

Try closing everything, and then reboot the *server*.
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HTH,

RD
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Starting this morning, when a user opens many (maybe all) the files on our
file server in her My Docs folder, she gets a message the file is locked for
editing. The only solution is to save the file in a new location, go back
to the My Docs folder and delete the file and move the file from the new
location. It won't let me save over the existing file. We're also getting
an file system error which creates the file with in.2 as an extension. Has
anyone seen this? The PC was restarted several times, I cleared out the Temp
folder. Any ideas? Thanks, Diane

 

[LDL]

Thank you both for your responses. I did reboot the server last night and
it did not fix the problem. I have discovered that this problem is
occurring on every single Excel document on the server. I believe it
started when I had to restart our server first thing yesterday morning
before anyone was at work. I had some DHCP errors and restarting cleared
them out. I'm at a total loss. I even cleared out the Temp folder on the
server. Didn't help. Does anyone have more ideas to try? Our server is NT
4.0 SP6a. Thanks, Diane

 

[Guest]

Copy a network file to a local drive and open it. Copy the file to a different server and open it. Is the problem moving with the file?

 

[LDL]

Thanks for all the responses. The problem just went away! Diane

Copy a network file to a local drive and open it. Copy the file to a

different server and open it. Is the problem moving with the file?