Thanks for your response -
unfortunately, it does NOT go away;
sometimes, I've found several of these ~lock files ;-(
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi :)
> +1
> Usually it all works very smoothly and it's kinda nice to see the
> lock-file appear and vanish as if by magic. Definitely a feature and NOT a
> bug, except when something else throws a spanner in the works
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> From: Steve Edmonds <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 3.6 Calc Problem / ~lock
> To: "anne-ology" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Tom" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, 29 August, 2012, 21:15
>
>
> Hi.
> I think that ~lock is used to control access to the document you have
> open. To stop another user from changing it unless you have enabled
> multiple user access for simultaneous editing.
>
> Usually it goes when you close the document, sometimes they stay after
> closing LO and I delete them.
>
> Steve
>
> On 2012-08-30 06:48, anne-ology wrote:
> > That ~lock pops up all the time whenever I used OO - and then LO
> -
> > HOW can it be stopped?; is it a bug which has continued form day
> 1?;
> > it happens in all the OO/LO programs ;-(
> >
> > Each time it appears, I delete it; I would search through
> > 'properties' for an option to stop this inane phenomenon, but never found
> > anything.
> >
> > Sure hope this bug will die anon.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Tom
> > <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]>>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi :)
> >> Has this problem been fixed yet? There might be a hidden file in the
> same
> >> folder the original document was in and has a name with ~lock in it
> >> somewhere. Deleting that file should get things back to normal.
> Usually
> >> there is a ~lock file in the UserProfile somewhere so hopefully renaming
> >> your user profile to force LO to generate a new one should have done the
> >> trick.
> >> Regards from
> >> Tom :)
> >>
>
>
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