When you look with Windows utilities you will see the actual user. Office probably uses what name is defined if you click file options. The name used to personalize office. Check there of you find Jack. [image: Inline image 1]
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 10:27 PM, David L Herrick <davidherr...@nincal.com> wrote: > It may not be the last person who saved. It will be the person that did > not close the file properly – lost network connection, whatever. So the > temp file sits out there until manually deleted and handing out bogus info. > > Took a look and found an example the word file is not currently open by > anyone: > > *if the ~filename.docx is not deleted it will provide potentially false > ino* > > > > > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists. > myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Sean Chapman > > > > > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 01, 2017 12:47 PM > *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] Wrong username shown as who has Word 2010 file > open > > > > I will say I have noticed this for years and never really figured it out. > It may have been the last person who saved the file but I'm not ready to > say for sure that's what it was. Whats really funny is we have one admin > who uses libreoffice and it still shows as him occasionally so I don't > think its only a word problem. > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com <listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> > on behalf of Michael Leone <oozerd...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 1, 2017 2:28 PM > *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com > *Subject:* [NTSysADM] Wrong username shown as who has Word 2010 file open > > > > This is strange. We use Word 2010, and we have one document that a > dozen people or so share. Now, here's the weird part - if Joe has the > file open, and I go to open it, it says that "Jack has the file open". > It doesn't say "Joe", it says the name of a former employee. Mind you, > this former employee's AD account is currently disabled. > > Oddly, if I go to the server that hosts this file, and look in > Computer Management for the list of open files, it properly shows > "Joe". No mention of "Jack". > > Which makes me say "uhhhhhh ... wut?". > > Any ideas? I think "Jack" was the user who may have originally created > the document. But why does it say that Jack has the file open, when > Jack can't even log in, much less open a document? And mind you, the > Jack account no longer has access to the network share where this > document is located. > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > The information contained in this communication and all accompanying > documents from Coilcraft may be confidential and/or legally privileged, and > is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are > not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any review, > disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance > on the contents of this transmitted information is strictly prohibited. If > you have received this communication in error, please return it to the > sender immediately and destroy the original message or accompanying > materials and any copy thereof. If you have any questions concerning this > message, please contact the sender. >
