I have to open the file on other computers as well and get the same message. I have to tell people to not use Teams. I add a word file. Almost all of the other temp files are illegible and those that can be read are just bits and pieces of the document - nothing you can really recover from. So I am posting a pic of what I see. A few of my users are in and out of various Excel 2007 spreadsheets all day.
Straight from : This behaviour may occur if Word determines that the owner file for the document already exists. The document is also not checked out. Every machine has it's own Office installation. If you have any pending changes, you will be asked whether you want to apply them to the both the original and duplicate copy or the duplicate copy only. McAfee particularly had a problem with locking files, and had to exclude those files from being scanned.
I noticed the problem in different tenants occasionally happening over the past couple of months but at my current project I am noticing it starting to happen too often. Logout of Microsoft Teams then login again 4. With the program no longer running in the background, your file should open normally. The first of these opens without the 'odt' is locked for editing by: Unknown User. In this case, the locking problem was only one of a dozen serious problems we experienced.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! How frequently should you perform this clean up? Likewise when you edit a document. Word only allows me to open them read-only Article contributed by Obsolete Article: The way Windows Desktop Search operates has changed. Hi VikSrini I checked the Drafts folder but the file is not there, so that didn't help either. However, you will not be able to see the associated temporary file from within the Finder because it is a hidden file. I have not seen any evidence that our users are experiencing a crash beforehand. Thanks Microsoft, another 2 hours of value added to my day.
We have discovered, however, that how you setup the sticky sessions is also important. I can confirm that this bug which it simply is is still alive in SharePoint 2010. If you receive a message that states that the program is not responding, click End Now. Just happens occationally, seems random although it's probably not? Deleting the tilde file just removed the identity of who had the file open. However, there are steps you can follow to get around the problems that these temporary files cause when left behind. Waiting 10 minutes and even rebooting my computer didn't help. When a user closes the document, I can change and edit it.
Bryan Yes I can now directly open the file; but all I get is the whole document as; Is there anything I can do to still open it? It knows how to lock the file correctly. Maybe I am just lucky, but try this guys, and see if you have the same result. Trying steps from but waiting to see if that resolves the issue from happening again. I don't know what could be happening or if connectivity is actually dropped because I never notice losing connectivity to anything at any other time nor do your sysadms see anything. Save your time and money! I would just recreate the file or resave it to a new name. I then exited the program, killed all of the Open Office processes in the process table, deleted the.
SharePoint is not even able to work with that, so we're not planning to bring in more problems by implementing web apps. Hi Paul, We rebooted all servers, and for now the problem seems to be gone. It might happen the first time you go to edit your checked out doc, or the 10th. To work around this behavior, wait 10 minutes before opening the document again. Hi, I have a client who recently upgraded to Windows 10 and he is using OpenOffice 4.
Logout of Microsoft Teams then login again 4. Always run a Scandisk before running a Defrag: defragging a drive with errors is a recipe for disaster! So, the both good and bad thing is, we are all stuck in this tech. I have upgraded to Office 1808. Try restarting the server to see if the issue can be fixed. I have tried taking ownership of the files and then opening but it still has this error. This will be very similar for all Windows operating systems and versions of Word.
In our case the first user with the file open is on Excel 2007; the second user is on Excel 2010; perhaps there's some incompatibility which causes the second user's Excel to be unable to get the real name. Just now, I opened a Word document, made a small edit, and saved. If you get the message, 'Unable to delete filename', Ctrl+click to deselect that file and press Delete to continue deleting the remainder. Repeat steps d and e for each occurrence of Winword. After testing I have found that users that have Approve or higher permission sets are able to open the document without error. I've seen this error today, when another user genuinely did have the file open.