I'm really not sure - I think it might be fairly new. Perhaps the
behavior was changed with the multi-user editing of documents in Word
2002??
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=292122
I've deleted the owner file in the past when I've encountered "this
file is opened by another user" message after I've made editing
changes to a global template (in a network environment when someone
has Word running and the template is loaded) to fool Word into
thinking it wasn't actually open so I can save my changes. This method
doesn't always work - I have encountered "permission denied" errors
occasionally - and I when it does work I have to find the computer
that does have Word running and carefully read the messages, something
like "this document was changed since it was opened, do you want to
update or discard changes, or my changes will end up being
overwritten.
Now that I think about it, maybe I do have an idea of what would
happen in a shared environment.
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Is this new? I thought I used to get an error message if I tried to
delete
the owner file for an open document.
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"Beth Melton" wrote in message
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You can delete the Owner files. I'm not sure what would happen in a
shared environment if it was deleted and someone else tried to open
the file, though.
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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You should not be able to delete this "owner" file while the
document is
open, and I'm very surprised that you can. See "Description of
how
Word
creates temporary files" at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632
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"steveb" wrote in message
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Bob:
Have been away for a few days.
This is what I have to do when working on Word if I wish to
avoid
my
computer locking up:
1. Go to file "Open" and get the document I need.
2. Immediately go back to file "Open" where on the list of files
is
a new
one (1K) starting with ~$ in place of the first two characters
of
my open
document name. My original file name is still listed normally.
3. Right click and delete this ~$ file which sends it to the
recycle bin.
4. Close the list of files.
5. Work on the original document.
If I forget to do steps 2 to 4, at some point the computer
locks. I
have
to
switch it off, re-boot and recover the file I am working on.
Thanks
Steve
"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
Hi Steve,
Are you referring to the locking up or that you aren't seeing
the
owner
files? If you haven't set Windows explorer to show hidden
files you won't see the owner files.
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"steveb" wrote in
message
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Thanks for all your suggestions, I will investigate them.
However, this identical 1k file is automatically generated
with
any of
my MS
Word files I open. I can also delete it without getting the
message that
it,
or the main file, is open. This is while the original main
file
is open.
I
have the same Word program on my laptop but it does not act
this
way.
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