Thanks. Turns out I had FS errors on the drive. Fix those. Everything is working as expected now.
Please disregard that message. Thanks, Dan. On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 05:03:15PM +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote: > 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 <[1]d.dal...@iinet.net.au> > wrote: > > Hi, > > When I try and open a word file on my usb drive with [2]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 > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:d.dal...@iinet.net.au > 2. http://openoffice.org/
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