file in use by another process

[Balllater Road Chris]

I'm running Word 2004 for Mac on a Mac Pro.

I also have Word for Windows installed under Parallels, and have
imported all my old windows .doc and .xls files which are kept in the
Windows partition under My Documents.

Although I can open and edit the files using Word 2004, when I try and
save them, I'm told I can't do this because they are in use by another
process (this happens while Parallels isn't running - can't even open
files when it is!)

As you probably realise, I'm a bit of a newbie to Macs. How can I
find out what's happening, which other process is using my documents?

thanks for your help,

Chris

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Chris:

I "THINK" that what is happening is that you have saved the documents to the
Windows NTFS partition.

Mac OS X cannot WRITE to NTFS. The latest version can "read" that file
system, but it can't write to it.

Do it the other way around: Move all of the documents to your Mac OS X HFS+
partition. You will find that Windows can read and write to the HFS+
partition no problems. It does on this Mac

If you have the latest Mac OS X, you will have BootCamp built in. You may
need some drivers from BootCamp to enable Windows to mount the HFS+
partition (but I don't think so... I think the drivers are in Parallels).

Hope this helps

I'm running Word 2004 for Mac on a Mac Pro.

I also have Word for Windows installed under Parallels, and have
imported all my old windows .doc and .xls files which are kept in the
Windows partition under My Documents.

Although I can open and edit the files using Word 2004, when I try and
save them, I'm told I can't do this because they are in use by another
process (this happens while Parallels isn't running - can't even open
files when it is!)

As you probably realise, I'm a bit of a newbie to Macs. How can I
find out what's happening, which other process is using my documents?

thanks for your help,

Chris

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