You'll have to find and delete the lock file for your brochure. It
should have a name like .~lock./yourfilename/.odt# (and the dot shows
it's a hidden file, so you might have to tell your operating system to
show hidden files). Once you've done that, your file should again be
editable, if locking was the only problem. But getting that dialog
implies that something may have happened to the file extension, so you
may need to bring up Writer first and browse to the file to open it.
Ordinarily, a locked file would open, but in Read Only mode.
L Shannon wrote:
I have spent over 5 weeks writing up a travel brochure on Openoffice.org and
today after dinner I went back to complete my editing and found that file
was locked and am unable to open it to continue my editing.
Thankfully I had created a .pdf file earlier on but it's the mastercopy that
I was editing that I wanted to re-open and I get this dialog box about ASCII
and I have no idea what is going on?
What's happened?? RSVP personally, not on public forum (my privacy is
important, thank you.)
L Shannon.
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