Hi :) Ahah, just found this message! Thank you Steve :) No the weird thing is that if i stay on the same computer and try to reopen the file using the same OS then it opens fine and allows me to edit. It's only when a different OS is used that the file only opens as Read-Only
I can't see a lock-file in the folder that the document is in and i can't remember the other place lock-files get stored. Thanks and regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Steve Edmonds <[email protected]> >To: Tom Davies <[email protected]> >Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, 7 November 2012, 17:15 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] locked in other OS > > >On 2012-11-08 00:57, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> >> When i save a file onto my company's network and then reopen it (still in >> Ubuntu) it all works fine. When my boss opens the file in Windows an >> error-message pops-up saying that he can only open a copy or in Read-Only >> mode. It's closed on my machine but his one claims it's still open. Then >> my boss changes the name, edits the document, saves and closes. Then when i >> open the new version of the document it tells me i can only open in Read >> Only (or a copy)! >> >> >> It does have a slight advantage in that it forces my boss to effectively >> make backups and i am gradually encouraging a standard versioning system >> other than >> filename-draft.doc >> filename-final.doc >> filename-FINAL.doc >> filename-revised.doc >> filename-final.doc >> in roughly random order and sometimes without the filename part so folders >> end up full of documents that could be about anything. Draft does not >> always come first and may even be the final and revised might be a revised >> draft or just be a draft. Hence frequent shouts of "so which one am i >> supposed to open?". It's slow going but at least we seem to make occasional >> steps forwards. >> >> So, i am not sure i really want to fix the problem but it's one of the >> excuses some of my colleagues use to revert to inferior products instead of >> going with LO. >> >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> >Hi. >Are lock files left behind in the folder with the files you edit. I >noticed yesterday that after working on a file on the server the lock >file remained after I closed the file I was editing. >.~lock.shearBeamDescription.odt# >Steve > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
