[mso] Re: Office XP and mysteriously read-only files
- From: "Elise Miller" <emiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:45:24 -0500
I just checked the user's rights and he is not missing any permissions
on the documents he was working with. This is perplexing. Thanks for
the article though.
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> From: Sanders, Phil (Faculty - sanderspw)
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:10 PM
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> Subject: [mso] Re: Office XP and mysteriously read-only files
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> Elise,
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> We have had a similar problem but with a different error message.
There is
> a
> KB article from Microsoft that may at least relate to it:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=3Dkb;en-us;291070. So =
far
I
> have found no solutions.
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> Good luck!
> Phil
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elise Miller [mailto:emiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 2:36 PM
> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mso] Re: Office XP and mysteriously read-only files
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> In both cases - at our client and at our office here - the files in
> question are being saved on a Small Business Server 2000 network, not
on
> the local hard drive. We've been maniacally checking permissions
though
> and haven't found anything that would suggest that the permissions are
> wrong though.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Linda F. Johnson [mailto:linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 3:18 PM
> > To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [mso] Re: Office XP and mysteriously read-only files
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> > I've seen this behavior when the files are stored on a network drive
> and
> > it
> > has something to do with the network permissions. Are these files
> being
> > saved on a network drive or locally on her hard drive?
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> > Linda
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> > Of Elise Miller
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 2:28 PM
> > To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [mso] Office XP and mysteriously read-only files
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> > Hi folks,
> > Does anyone know if the following behavior is a known bug in Office
XP
> > and/or whether there is some kind of fix:
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> > User opens an Office XP document and upon trying to save changes
made,
> a
> > little box comes up saying the document is read-only or another user
> is
> > currently using it. User verifies that the document is NOT open by
> > another user. User also verifies file attributes on the document
and
> > read-only is not checked. Only way around this is to "Save As" and
> give
> > the document a slightly different name. The next day the original
> > document behaves normally again. No changes to the system between
the
> > two days.
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> > I've had behavior like this both at our office and at one of our
> clients
> > (we are a small IT consulting firm).
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> > Thanks!
> > Elise
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