“The Desktop App has file lock(s) in place for the following files: (file-name).”Ĭhoose “Release” to free the lock. The file has been marked as Final and can no longer be updated. An instance of the Office app is running in the background with the file already opened. The file might be locked because: The file is shared and another user is currently editing it.
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If you can re-launch the Desktop App from the same PC where the file was opened using “Lock & Open” you should see this message at login (remember to use the same My Docs Online Login ID): Typically, you will be able to open the file as read-only, but you won’t be able to edit it. If the file was Locked using the My Docs Online Desktop App and one of the above occurred or the Desktop App ended unexpectedly, the lock will need to be released via the Desktop App. Reasons the Lock might still exist but be expired include the following that happened while the Word/Excel file was being edited from a Web Folders location:
If the WebDAV “Lock” was placed on the file by Microsoft Office in combination with Web Folders, and it has in fact expired, this notification will usually come in about two minutes. This will open a read-only copy and then later notify you that it is available for edit, allowing you to switch to an Edit session. When attempting to open a Word or Excel file via Web Folders, if you see a message telling you it is “locked for editing” by another user, and offering to either open a “read-only” copy or to “Notify” when the file is available for edit, choose “Notify” IF YOU ARE CONFIDENT the file is locked in error.