Some things that can be tested, to force the file’s lock to be released are:
If this happens often, for a specific user, there could be some issues with the user’s Office application. Solution/workaround, when the other user is you SharePoint will sooner or later release this lock, so if you have patience, just wait for a few minutes. It normally happens when you close a document and the Office application does not release the information that the document is open for editing. This can however happen even if you don’t have the document open in another application. If so, close this application and try again. It could be because you have the document open for editing in another application. In some situations, this can however occur when the “other user” is you. This is an expected behavior and before you can edit the document, the other user first needs to release it/check it in.
You will also get the same error message if you try to: If you try to edit a document that either has been checked out to someone else, or if the document that you try to edit does not have support for coauthoring and someone else is editing it, you will get this error message: Error is kinda nice tells you which computers cant be reached therefore it may be time for a cleanup.Error message: The file is checked out or locked for editing by another userĪpplicable browsers: Any browser Description Although it errors out it just silently continues searching through AD computers. For my example, I used *chrome* which I know is chrome.exe but I wanted to make sure so I used wildcard. This will get you started but you are better off running it overnight as it will take a while any computer located in AD that returns the process open (you choose which one excell is winword) and possibly stuck. 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.
#Network shared excel file locked for editing but not open windows#
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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