[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been using OOo for 4-5 years now & have been greatly satisfied > with the completeness of the Suite. There is one BUG that may force me > to revert to the MS alternative. > > I've searched the EMAIL & Discussion archives & found the same issue > reported back in Sept/Oct 2005. > > BUG: When a document is opened by a MS Word user the 'File locked by' > is set to the current user id. When a second user tries to open the same > document, a dialog lets you know who has the document locked. This is > not true if the first user has opened the document with OOo. In this > case, the previous MS Word user id is reported. > > Is there a fix or workaround (going to everyone that may have document > open is not a workaround!)?
This is not a bug in OOo but an undocumented feature in Word. They use a proprietary mechanism for the user id transfer that is not shared with OOo. There is no "official" API on Windows that supports it so they put some information into (or beneath) the file. So the bug is in Word: they didn't take care for the case that any other application than Word would open the file. A typical Microsoft hubris. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
