First check whether openoffice is running/not by the following command ps -aux| grep soffice
Here you get the process id (pid) of open office Kill the process by the following command kill -9 <pid of openoffice> . On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Daniel Dalton <d.dal...@iinet.net.au>wrote: > > Hi, > > When I try and open a word file on my usb drive with openoffice.org here > on debian squeez, I get this error: > Openoffice.org: The file has been locked by unknown user. > Open read only > Open a copy. > > So, how can i stop it from saying this so I can edit files again on my > usb with oo? > > Thanks, > Dan > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkqbr+AACgkQQCYsNYjKJVCe0QCaAi/aQiAP/fc7D/yDxUmmitwe > Cu4AoJBxBqt1Z8H4bo/bLOIscgGKmJfv > =lls8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti(কৌশিক মাইতি) Registered Linux User #474025 Registered Ubuntu User # 28654
