Excel 2013 Cannot Save because the file is read-only.

To  answer both. He can edit and save to these locations. Then randomly it comes up and says it is in read-only mode. He saves the document as something else. Deletes the original document and then renames the newly saved document back to the original name. Auto-save is on and working and he is using versioning but I believe those are on for everybody. Like I said I did a excel doc as him and didnt have any issues. So I am not sure what it takes to reproduce it. I actually made sure he wasnt also connected to wireless and he is not he is only hard wired.

User keeps getting this same error on random excel files that he has opened for editing. They do not say read-only mode. They trust settings are correct. I created a spreadsheet modified it saved it and opened it every way I could think of and cannot reproduce the problem but can show me on the spreadsheets. It happens on his and others spreadsheets. Doesnt seem to be a rhyme or reason for it.
Windows 7, 64 bit.
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