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AdamV
Has anyone else seen this behaviour or know of a reason for it?
Windows XP sp2, Office 2007
User A has a network shared folder set up to be available offline but is
currently on the LAN and Windows believes it to be "online".
User A opens a file from the share, and should get exclusive access to the
network copy of the file.
User B can still open the file, no warnings given about the file being in use.
File is definitely not shared.
It appears (from looking for file locks on the server) that the client
simply opens the offline copy of the file silently and all saves are to this
local copy until it is synchronised. The other user opens the server copy
directly.
I am told by the user in question that this "seems" to happen on files which
are still being saved in .XLS format, not new .XLSX files.
Obviously this is very frustrating and adds some risk that on user's saved
changes will be lost once the file is synchronised.
Anyone have any ideas, or seen something similar?
Windows XP sp2, Office 2007
User A has a network shared folder set up to be available offline but is
currently on the LAN and Windows believes it to be "online".
User A opens a file from the share, and should get exclusive access to the
network copy of the file.
User B can still open the file, no warnings given about the file being in use.
File is definitely not shared.
It appears (from looking for file locks on the server) that the client
simply opens the offline copy of the file silently and all saves are to this
local copy until it is synchronised. The other user opens the server copy
directly.
I am told by the user in question that this "seems" to happen on files which
are still being saved in .XLS format, not new .XLSX files.
Obviously this is very frustrating and adds some risk that on user's saved
changes will be lost once the file is synchronised.
Anyone have any ideas, or seen something similar?