Thank you David - that worked. Kind Regards, John.
On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 10:31 PM David <da...@robley.au> wrote: > John Mehta wrote: > > I've just activated the RansomeWare option in my AntiVirus program and > now > > get the message "File locked for editing by unknown user" when I try to > > open an existing text or spreadsheet. I can open a copy, edit that, and > > save it with a new file name. > > But how can I unlock my files to continue using the original file names? > > > In your antivirus program, whitelist OpenOffice, specifically > soffice.bin which you should find in the program sub-directory under > where OpenOffice is installed on your (not specified) operating system. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
