In a Windows Explorer window, do the following:Ĥ. If you are fully updated for both Office and Windows, and can find no other reason or resolution to this issue but this does help, this may be your only solution.
However, while much less frequent, we've seen occurrences where this step may still help. This has been found to be an issue for which both Office and Windows have released updates for.
This is a problem that has been reported to affect Windows 7 clients only, not Windows XP. Turn off the Preview Pane, Details Pane and pop ups that show information about file and desktop items Scroll down the list to %u201CShow pop-up description for folder and desktop items%u201D and clear the checkbox and then click OK. In the box that opens up, click on the View tab.
On a Windows menu, click on Tools > Folder Options. At the top left click Organize > LayoutĤ. In a Windows Explorer window, do the following: 1. IMHO shared Excel files are always iffy at best, I usually migrate to Access if it is absolutely necessary to allow concurrent users in the same document. I have also seen odd file locking behavior after turning shadow copies on, and when a user would leave the file open overnight through our backup routines. We have a similar recurring issue on our fileserver with a shared Excel file, the server registers that particular file as locked, so copying it and changing the name without first clearing the locks on the file server will probably not help. If this is a shared Excel file, then it is a common bug and the lock file is not the issue. Please let me know if you guys know of anything! Thank you so much! Is there a way to delete this lockfile? Why is it refusing to respond to a simple delete command? Am I right by assuming this lockfile is the cause of my issues? When I attempt to delete the lockfile, nothing happens. I have located the file lockfile (~$Sicily.xlsx) that is residing in my shared drive. When I tried to name sicily1 BACK to sicily, the program reverted back to its initial output status. From there, I unshared the file, reshared it, and saved the same file but with a different name (sicily1.xlsx) back to my Shared drive. I moved the file (for the sake of explanation, lets use the name sicily.xlsx) to my local C: drive. The file locked up today ("this operation cannot be completed" was displayed upon opening and "this file is locked" was displayed after attempting to access the Review tab > Share Workbook > (uncheck) Allow changes by other users). So, I have a shared Excel file on a shared drive:
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