Problem with file locked by another user
I have a problem with a user on Windows 7 in my network when accessing a single .xlsx file. When Jane Smith opens said file, she gets a message that the file is locked by Jane Smith but she has checked and it was in use by another user, Roger Smith.
This happened over a weeks time and is not a one-off situation. Researching online, I tried one suggestion by going to Roger Smith's computer and into the registry under HKEY CURRENT USER, navigated to "Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\UserInfo",
expecting to see Jane Smiths name and initials. Nope, that wasn't the problem. I went ahead and deleted extra profiles on the computer and ran a repair on Roger Smiths Office 2013.
It was okay for a half a day then towards the end of the day, Jane Smith calls back to say again the same file is locked by Jane Smith yet this time Diana Smith had the file open.
So, the file is locked but why is Excel not reporting the correct user? What can I do to address this?
These all reference Office 2007 and 2010. As far as you know, all of these fixes still apply to Office 2013?
example: they give two updates to download.
Excel 2007 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2598133
Excel 2010 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2598143
No option for 2013.
but this could be useful no matter the version.
In the Shared folder or the File Server;
Open the folder where the Document is located.
Click Tools=>Folder Options
Click the View tab
Scoll down to Advanced Settings>Hidden files and folders
Select Show hidden files and folders and Unselect Hide protected operating system files
Look for a temp lock file and delete it. It should look something like
~$filename.xlsx or whatever file extension the it was saved in.
(In my case, this file had become corrupt and was stuck displaying an earlier modify date from a few days ago..)
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Hi,
I am supporting a small office with 8x Windows 7 Pro 64x machines running Office 2007. They have a 2008 R2 DC which is also file server.
Recently we started getting the message that files are locked by "another user". This does not happen all the time and the files are not in use by anyone when it occurs. If a file is used by someone else it gives the user name in the error message.
They can try opening the file one moment and it fails, try again and it works fine. Sometimes it takes repeated tries or they have to open the file from within Excel (they usually just double click the file to open). I'm not sure if it happens with Word as
well, as they are a quite Excel heavy office.
I did some investigation online and a lot of the threats I found were related to Windows Defender - which my client was using. So I got rid of that and installed McAfee, which I liked much better anyway. Unfortunately that did not help and my client reports
that the incidences of locked files are getting more and more, to the point where they are quite annoyed.
In all honesty, I don't know where to start to get on top of this thing and would appreciate some guidance ;)
Thanks!
Maike
Here a screenshot I got, a little small - sorry!Hi Maike,
Check if the following information would help:
There is a public blog on file locking issues (http://blogs.technet.com/b/the_microsoft_excel_support_team_blog/archive/2012/05/14/the-definitive-locked-file-post.aspx).
I would suggest the following:
If you are seeing problems where the file is locked when double clicking from Windows Explorer, but the files open up correctly when opened in Excel or Word, do the following:
Turn off the Preview Pane, Details Pane and pop ups that show information about file and desktop items
This is a problem that has been reported to affect Windows 7 clients only, not Windows XP. The problem here may have something to do with the Windows Explorer in Windows 7. We are currently investigating this further and will post more information as it is
available.
In a Windows Explorer window, do the following:
1. Right click on the Start Button.
2. Click 'Open Windows Explorer'.
3. At the top left click Organize > Layout
4. Uncheck Details Pane and Preview Pane.
5. On a Windows menu, click on Tools > Folder Options. In the box that opens up, click on the View tab. Scroll down the list to“Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items” and clear the checkbox and then click OK.
If you are seeing issues where the wrong user name is showing up, there is a known bug on that and a fix:
In cases where the wrong user name is displayed in the file lock dialog
Sometimes where it says 'another user' it has the name of someone that didn't open the file or it has no name at all. Just a big ' ' where a name ought to be. Fear not, there is a fix for this problem. The flavor depends on
whether you have Excel 2010 or Excel 2007. The below KB Articles contain hotfixes that address several issues, not just the file locked issue. But in the dialog of the article you will see this as one of the problem descriptions:
Assume that you have an .xls file that is protected by Information Rights Management (IRM) on a network share. When you open the file in Excel 2007, a File In Use dialog box appears. However, the dialog box does not display the
correct name of the user who locked the file. Therefore, you cannot edit the file.
Understand that these fixes don't make the File in Use dialog go away, they just correct the problem of showing bogus user name information on the dialog itself.
Excel 2007 -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2598133
Excel 2010 -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2598143
Will Buffington
Microsoft Excel Support
Max Meng
TechNet Community Support -
64-bit, 32-bit Porting - Problem with file locking
Hi,
OS: Solaris 8
I am trying to port the existing 32-bit code to 64-bit. I am facing the following problem.
The executable works fine with 32-bit compilation, but fails with the 64-bit compilation. I am trying to lock a file, but it is failing with the errno = 9 [Bad file descriptor]
I have included the code. I would appreciate if some one can help me to solve this.
Many Thanks and Regards,
Srini
Please find below the compilation flags i used.
32-bit compilation:
cc -KPIC -Xa -mt -o coreflck coreflck.c
When i run the exe then the result is:
$coreflck
Done!!!!
64-bit compilation:
cc -KPIC -Xa -mt -xarch=v9 -o coreflck coreflck.c
When i run the exe then the result is:
$ coreflck
Error Occurred while locking errno:9
Done!!!!
Please find below the code (coreflck.c)
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/errno.h>
#include <malloc.h>
extern int errno;
int lock(
int fd,
int cmd,
struct flock *lcks
int op = 0;
int sts;
do {
sts = fcntl (fd, cmd, lcks);
} while (sts == -1 && errno == EINTR);
return sts;
int main ()
struct flock lock_struct;
int mode, junk = 0;
FILE *fp;
fp = fopen("/krb5/tmp/cc/krb5cc_1024", "rb");
memset( &lock_struct, 0, sizeof( lock_struct ));
lock_struct.l_type = F_WRLCK;
lock_struct.l_whence = SEEK_SET;
do {
mode = fcntl (fileno( fp ), F_GETFL, junk);
} while (mode == -1 && errno == EINTR);
if (mode == -1 )
printf("Error Occurred errno:%d\n",errno);
else {
/* If the file's mode is read-only then we
try for a shared lock; Otherwise, we
try for an exclusive lock. */
if( mode == O_RDONLY )
lock_struct.l_type = F_RDLCK;
if( lock( fileno( fp ), F_SETLKW, &lock_struct ) == -1 )
printf("Error Occurred while locking errno:%d\n", errno);
printf("Done!!!!\r\n");I found the solution
I changed the line
if( mode == O_RDONLY )
to
if( (mode & O_ACCMODE) == O_RDONLY )
Since, if we use
F_GETFL
Get the file status flags and file access modes, defined in <fcntl.h>, for the file description associated with fildes. The file access modes can be extracted from the return value using the mask O_ACCMODE, which is defined in <fcntl.h>. File status flags and file access modes are associated with the file description and do not affect other file descriptors that refer to the same file with different open file descriptions.
Cheers,
Srini -
Is anyone having the same type of problems I'm having with Lion. I have a new MacBook Pro, received 7 weeks ago, preinstalled with Leopard 10.6.7. I didn't migrate anything from my old iMac, wanted a clean install from the Apple Store. While there, I asked for the upgrade to Lion 10.7, however their system was down.
I installed it myself, wirelessly about a week later, and Apple emailed me a receipt. Now, I've had to call support directly last week when I lost Mail, Address Book, was unable to open Preview or iTunes, among other problems. Seemed fixed after a session that baffled even the store tech. Now I am unable to download or install the recent Mac updates for Lion, from the App Store, could not install Adobe Reader, etc. Messages range from 'A network error has occured - Check your Internet connection and try again' to 'The Installer is damaged and cannot open the package. There may be a problem with file ownership or permissions.' All fail and I'll probably have to call Apple again. I am frustrated beyond words. Logs 'Install's runner tool is not properly configured as a setuid tool', domain errors, 'attempt to write a readonly database, and on and on. I have barely done a thing on this computer except search online for help with these problems. Safari gives me a 'You are not connected to the internet' too often. Diagnostics disagrees. I do see wi-fi problems in the forum. Disk and permissions were fine at the beginning of the earlier problems, checked first by support tech. I'm not sure if support tech even knew. I was just happy they were fixed. Anyone have these download and/or install problems after a 'clean bill of health' so to speak, only a week ago?Let's try the following user tip with that one:
"There is a problem with this Windows Installer package ..." error messages when installing iTunes for Windows -
NT security problems with file I/O
I have 2 problems with file I/O. When I read from a file I use the getAbsolutePath() method that is part of the File class to find what directory the files are currenlty. The problem is that the returned path says that the file is on the desktop no matter what directory the file really is in. The second problem is that I am unable to save files anywhere but the desktop. I must run the class files from the desktop too to get it to work.
I am using NT 4.0 for development. I'm guessing that these problems might be NT security related. Could someone help me?
Code below:
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.File;
import java.awt.event.*;
//import java.security.*;
//import sun.security.*;
//import java.awt.Window;
//import com.ms.security.*;
public class Edit extends Applet implements ActionListener, ItemListener
String Gselect;
reader readit;
int mhz, khz;
TextField textField1;
String freq = "000.000";
String data;
Choice freqC;
Button ActivateB, SaveB, /*CancelB, HelpB,*/ DeleteB;
Checkbox SetC;
int NotUsedReply[] = new int[200];
int HwListReply[] = new int[200];
public void init()
readit = new reader();
String myFile="satellite.st1";
// myFile = myFile.concat(Gselect);
File satellite = new File(myFile);
textField1 = new TextField();
textField1.setText( "(void) " );
add( textField1 );
SetC = new Checkbox("TRAP-RX");
add(SetC);
SetC.addItemListener(this);
freqC = new Choice();
freqC.setSize(20,50);
freqC.add("000.000");
add(freqC);
freqC.addItemListener(this);
ActivateB = new Button("Activate");
add(ActivateB);
ActivateB.addActionListener(this);
SaveB = new Button("Save");
add(SaveB);
SaveB.addActionListener(this);
DeleteB = new Button("Delete");
add(DeleteB);
DeleteB.addActionListener(this);
/*CancelB = new Button("Cancel");
add(CancelB);
CancelB.addActionListener(this);
HelpB = new Button("Help");
add(HelpB);
HelpB.addActionListener(this);*/
//textField1.setText( data );
for(int a = 1; a < 9; a++)
data = readit.getData(satellite.getAbsolutePath(), a);//("E:\\forte4j\\system\\Projects\\Zebra\\satellite.st1", a);
freqC.addItem(data);
textField1.setText(satellite.getAbsolutePath() );
public void paint(Graphics g)
//g.drawString("Radio Setup Files",20, 20);
//g.drawString(getParameter("wse"),20, 20);
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
if(event.getSource() == ActivateB)
activator();
if(event.getSource() == SaveB)
/*if(event.getSource() == CancelB)
stop();
if(event.getSource() == HelpB)
if(event.getSource() == DeleteB)
public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e)
if(e.getItemSelectable() == SetC)
textField1.setText("Check box 1 clicked!");
if(e.getItemSelectable() == freqC)
freq = ((Choice)e.getItemSelectable()).getSelectedItem();
public void activator()
makeMHZ();
makeKHZ();
if(mhz > 254)
int StartLink[]={0x0c,0x01,0x07,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00}; //New Link Proc Start
int TrapConfig[]={0x25,0x80,0x00,0x00,0x00,0xb7,0x00,0x0c,0x0b, //TRAP Configuration
0x00,0x00,0x00,0xff,0xa0,0xff,0x0d,0xff,0xe8,
0xff,0x0d,0xff,0x00,0xff,0x15,0xff,0xb0,0xff,
0xff,0xff,0x94,0x0a,0x01,0x06,0x1a,0x00,0x0d,
0x2d,0x21};
TrapConfig[11]=(mhz-255);
TrapConfig[12]=(khz/5);
int SetUserOutput[]={0x41,0x42,0x49,0x54,0x52,0x41,0x50,0x20,0x34, //Sets User Output Format
0x35,0x34,0x35,0x30,0x30,0x2e,0x30,0x4e,0x30,
0x38,0x32,0x34,0x35,0x30,0x30,0x2e,0x30,0x57,
0x30,0x31,0x30,0x30,0x2e,0x30,0x30,0x4b,0x4d,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00};
sendget CmdFunc;
CmdFunc=new sendget();
try
//PolicyEngine.assertPermission(PermissionID.SYSTEM);
Socket h = new Socket("192.9.200.155",9000);
Socket s = new Socket("192.9.200.155",9001);
Socket t = new Socket("192.9.200.155",9002);
int j;
CmdFunc.SendCmd(h,0,0x01,null);
CmdFunc.GetCmd(h,HwListReply);
CmdFunc.SendCmd(s,9,0x1e,StartLink); //New Link Proc Start
CmdFunc.GetCmd(s,NotUsedReply);
CmdFunc.SendCmd(s,37,0x00,TrapConfig); //TRAP Configuration
CmdFunc.GetCmd(s,NotUsedReply);
CmdFunc.SendCmd(s,155,0x03,SetUserOutput);//Sets User Output Format
CmdFunc.GetCmd(s,NotUsedReply);
catch(Exception e){}
else
textField1.setText( "000.000 is the null choice. Try another." );
public void receiveText1( String select )
Gselect=select;
public void makeMHZ()
String y = freqC.getSelectedItem();
y = y.substring(0,3);
mhz = Integer.parseInt(y);
//textField1.setText( y );
public void makeKHZ()
String y = freqC.getSelectedItem();
y = y.substring(4,7);
khz = Integer.parseInt(y);
//textField1.setText( y );
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.LineNumberReader;
import java.awt.event.*;
import com.ms.security.*;
import netscape.security.*;
import netscape.util.*;
public class saver extends Applet implements ActionListener
String nameS = "Data.txt";
String dataS = "Default Data";
Button saveB;
public void init()
saveB = new Button("SaveFile");
add(saveB);
saveB.addActionListener(this);
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
if(event.getSource() == saveB)
RandomAccessFile RAF;
byte array0[] = dataS.getBytes();
try
if (Class.forName("com.ms.security.PolicyEngine") != null)
PolicyEngine.assertPermission(PermissionID.SYSTEM);
if(Class.forName("netscape.security.PrivilegeManager") != null)
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalFileWrite");
catch (Throwable cnfe)
try
RAF = new RandomAccessFile(nameS, "rw");
// RAF.writeUTF(dataS);
RAF.write(dataS.getBytes());
RAF.close();
catch(Exception e)
public void receiveND(String name, String data)
if(name != null)
nameS = name;
dataS=data;
import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.LineNumberReader;
//import java.security.*;
import com.ms.security.*;
import netscape.security.*;
import netscape.util.*;
public class reader
//Signature sig;
public String getData(String filename, int pass)
//String nameS = "Data.txt";
String dataS = "Default Data Sucks";
String comma = ",";
int get = pass, count=0, top=0, bottom=0;
char[] work;
try
if (Class.forName("com.ms.security.PolicyEngine") != null)
PolicyEngine.assertPermission(PermissionID.SYSTEM);
if(Class.forName("netscape.security.PrivilegeManager") != null)
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalFileRead");
catch (Throwable cnfe)
try
//sig.sign();
//nameS = filename;
RandomAccessFile RAF = new RandomAccessFile(filename, "r");
// dataS = RAF.readUTF();
dataS = RAF.readLine();
RAF.close();
catch(Exception e)
return e.toString();
work = dataS.toCharArray();
for(int i = 0; i < dataS.length(); i++)
if( work[i] == ',' )
count++;
if(get == count)
bottom = i + 1;
if( (work[i] == ',') && (count > get) && (top == 0) )
top = i;
dataS = dataS.substring(bottom,top);
return dataS;
}import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.File;
import java.awt.event.*;
//import java.security.*;
//import sun.security.*;
//import java.awt.Window;
//import com.ms.security.*;
public class Edit extends Applet implements ActionListener, ItemListener
String Gselect;
reader readit;
int mhz, khz;
TextField textField1;
String freq = "000.000";
String data;
Choice freqC;
Button ActivateB, SaveB, /*CancelB, HelpB,*/ DeleteB;
Checkbox SetC;
int NotUsedReply[] = new int[200];
int HwListReply[] = new int[200];
public void init()
readit = new reader();
String myFile="satellite.st1";
// myFile = myFile.concat(Gselect);
File satellite = new File(myFile);
textField1 = new TextField();
textField1.setText( "(void) " );
add( textField1 );
SetC = new Checkbox("TRAP-RX");
add(SetC);
SetC.addItemListener(this);
freqC = new Choice();
freqC.setSize(20,50);
freqC.add("000.000");
add(freqC);
freqC.addItemListener(this);
ActivateB = new Button("Activate");
add(ActivateB);
ActivateB.addActionListener(this);
SaveB = new Button("Save");
add(SaveB);
SaveB.addActionListener(this);
DeleteB = new Button("Delete");
add(DeleteB);
DeleteB.addActionListener(this);
/*CancelB = new Button("Cancel");
add(CancelB);
CancelB.addActionListener(this);
HelpB = new Button("Help");
add(HelpB);
HelpB.addActionListener(this);*/
//textField1.setText( data );
for(int a = 1; a < 9; a++)
data = readit.getData(satellite.getAbsolutePath(), a);//("E:\\forte4j\\system\\Projects\\Zebra\\satellite.st1", a);
freqC.addItem(data);
textField1.setText(satellite.getAbsolutePath() );
public void paint(Graphics g)
//g.drawString("Radio Setup Files",20, 20);
//g.drawString(getParameter("wse"),20, 20);
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
if(event.getSource() == ActivateB)
activator();
if(event.getSource() == SaveB)
/*if(event.getSource() == CancelB)
stop();
if(event.getSource() == HelpB)
if(event.getSource() == DeleteB)
public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e)
if(e.getItemSelectable() == SetC)
textField1.setText("Check box 1 clicked!");
if(e.getItemSelectable() == freqC)
freq = ((Choice)e.getItemSelectable()).getSelectedItem();
public void activator()
makeMHZ();
makeKHZ();
if(mhz > 254)
int StartLink[]={0x0c,0x01,0x07,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00}; //New Link Proc Start
int TrapConfig[]={0x25,0x80,0x00,0x00,0x00,0xb7,0x00,0x0c,0x0b, //TRAP Configuration
0x00,0x00,0x00,0xff,0xa0,0xff,0x0d,0xff,0xe8,
0xff,0x0d,0xff,0x00,0xff,0x15,0xff,0xb0,0xff,
0xff,0xff,0x94,0x0a,0x01,0x06,0x1a,0x00,0x0d,
0x2d,0x21};
TrapConfig[11]=(mhz-255);
TrapConfig[12]=(khz/5);
int SetUserOutput[]={0x41,0x42,0x49,0x54,0x52,0x41,0x50,0x20,0x34, //Sets User Output Format
0x35,0x34,0x35,0x30,0x30,0x2e,0x30,0x4e,0x30,
0x38,0x32,0x34,0x35,0x30,0x30,0x2e,0x30,0x57,
0x30,0x31,0x30,0x30,0x2e,0x30,0x30,0x4b,0x4d,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00};
sendget CmdFunc;
CmdFunc=new sendget();
try
//PolicyEngine.assertPermission(PermissionID.SYSTEM);
Socket h = new Socket("192.9.200.155",9000);
Socket s = new Socket("192.9.200.155",9001);
Socket t = new Socket("192.9.200.155",9002);
int j;
CmdFunc.SendCmd(h,0,0x01,null);
CmdFunc.GetCmd(h,HwListReply);
CmdFunc.SendCmd(s,9,0x1e,StartLink); //New Link Proc Start
CmdFunc.GetCmd(s,NotUsedReply);
CmdFunc.SendCmd(s,37,0x00,TrapConfig); //TRAP Configuration
CmdFunc.GetCmd(s,NotUsedReply);
CmdFunc.SendCmd(s,155,0x03,SetUserOutput);//Sets User Output Format
CmdFunc.GetCmd(s,NotUsedReply);
catch(Exception e){}
else
textField1.setText( "000.000 is the null choice. Try another." );
public void receiveText1( String select )
Gselect=select;
public void makeMHZ()
String y = freqC.getSelectedItem();
y = y.substring(0,3);
mhz = Integer.parseInt(y);
//textField1.setText( y );
public void makeKHZ()
String y = freqC.getSelectedItem();
y = y.substring(4,7);
khz = Integer.parseInt(y);
//textField1.setText( y );
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.LineNumberReader;
import java.awt.event.*;
import com.ms.security.*;
import netscape.security.*;
import netscape.util.*;
public class saver extends Applet implements ActionListener
String nameS = "Data.txt";
String dataS = "Default Data";
Button saveB;
public void init()
saveB = new Button("SaveFile");
add(saveB);
saveB.addActionListener(this);
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
if(event.getSource() == saveB)
RandomAccessFile RAF;
byte array0[] = dataS.getBytes();
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if (Class.forName("com.ms.security.PolicyEngine") != null)
PolicyEngine.assertPermission(PermissionID.SYSTEM);
if(Class.forName("netscape.security.PrivilegeManager") != null)
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import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.LineNumberReader;
//import java.security.*;
import com.ms.security.*;
import netscape.security.*;
import netscape.util.*;
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if (Class.forName("com.ms.security.PolicyEngine") != null)
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if(Class.forName("netscape.security.PrivilegeManager") != null)
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalFileRead");
catch (Throwable cnfe)
try
//sig.sign();
//nameS = filename;
RandomAccessFile RAF = new RandomAccessFile(filename, "r");
// dataS = RAF.readUTF();
dataS = RAF.readLine();
RAF.close();
catch(Exception e)
return e.toString();
work = dataS.toCharArray();
for(int i = 0; i < dataS.length(); i++)
if( work == ',' )
count++;
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Desktop Administrator Locked by another user
Lately I have been having a problem making changes to workflow on my primary UCCX 7.0(1)SR3 server. I open desktop administrator and click on "Side A", then login to the desktop administrator site, but each time I get a popup saying that CDA is locked by another user. Am I doing something wrong?
Hi,
There is a bug opened for this but we are still trying to get a clean set of logs to provide to the development team for root cause.
If the problem is still happening, can you please open a TAC case and complete the following:
1. Se the WebAdmin debug level to DEBUG and set the files to 10
2. Set the LRMServer debug level to TRACE and set the files to 10
Try to login to the WebAdmin and get the message that another user is logged in. Wait 15 minutes. Try to navigate to another page like the Enterprise Data Fields page and see if the 'Save' button is activated or if you still get that message.
Collect the following:
1. WebAdmin*.dbg from C:\Program Files\Cisco\Desktop\log
2. LRMServer*.dbg from the same location
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Excel 2007: file opened by another user
Hi guys. Help me to hunt down a question.
Then I am trying to open or save a spreadsheet in excel 2007 it always shows me a downloading status bar without any progress. After few minutes the file opens or not. Game of chance. When it didn`t open I get this error message "file
opened by another user".
I should notice that I have windows 7, office 2007. I tried to transfer some files to another pc and at first it`s working good, without any troubles, but then still the same problem. Pops up a dialog window with the message. It happens
on network files only. Of course I have tried to run excel in a save mode and in compatibility mode. But nothing change.
Give me please any clue what can it be and how can I fix it?Try this. Excel Options, click Advanced at the left side of the dialog window. Then make sure that DDE is selected. By this you make enable the Ignore Other Applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange feature.
And also try the following: open Tools – Folder options. In the list of the file types choose XLS. Then click the Advanced. Select Open. The Application Used to Perform Action box contains the actual command line used to start Excel.
You should add in this field a space followed by "%1". Be sure to include the quotes. And deselect Use DDE. That’s all steps you should do.
Also you can solve this issue with help of third-party program. This is good one, try it - Recovery Toolbox for Excel
https://excel.recoverytoolbox.com/
In principle, this is all that i can reccomend. -
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Were you ever able to solve this problem. I'm having similar issues since upgrading to snow leopard. Four macs connect to a Windows Server 2003 for shared files. Each user has full permissions & when we "get info" it shows read & write permissions. Two of the computers were running 10.4, two were running 10.5. Everything worked properly until upgrading to snow leopard. Some files let me copy, move, delete. Others either just hang up or we get a "no permission" error. Also getting a "pdf is in use" error, even when the file/folder doesn't contain a pdf. We had our IT rep check the server who said everything is in working order. They don't represent macs any longer but feel that it's a mac problem. I would have to agree since this problem only started after the upgrade, and the one machine that was not upgraded (still running 10.5.8) is not dealing with these problems.
Lastly, I would install 10.5 back on all of the computers if I could, but the leopard disk that came with one of the computers wouldn't work with the 2 machines running 10.4 and I didn't see it available at the apple store. I'll buy it if it's still available, but why wouldn't the disks that I have work?
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Windows Server 2008 r2 File service and Storage File opened by "another user"
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I tried on a Windows 2008 R2 system and here is the result.
Here "2" is a standard domain user so it could be displayed correctly.
I would like to know if the issue specifically occurs on Office files? If so it could be an Office issue instead of system related. You can try one of the following 2 files:
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Problems with File Transfers Over Firewire 800.
Over the past month, I have had problems when transfering files from my harddrive, over Firewire 800 to a portable drive. I usually transfer very large files (20gb or more) to the portable drives for moving files around. When I drag a file over to copy onto a drive, the transfer starts normally. If I drag more files to copy over, the computer screen goes darker and a large icon comes up that looks like a power button icon. It tells me to restart, so I have to do a hard shut down on my G5. Weird. I also get the dark screen of death sometimes when I am transfering those large files and open another application to do some work while it's copying. It's killing me. I am having to sit here and wait for the transfer to finish before I can do anything.
Any thoughts...
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Mac OSX 10.4.3
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I suddenly encounter this error message from Fire Fox.
Could not initialize the application's security component. The most likely cause is problems with files in your application's profile directory. Please check that this directory has no read/write restrictions and your hard disk is not full or close to full. It is recommended that you exit the application and fix the problem. If you continue to use this session, you might see incorrect application behaviour when accessing security features.
I uninstalled the browser and download a new version but it does not resolve the issue.
I know my hard disc has ample space. I do NOT know where to find the Profile directory to fix the read restriction box.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== After something about security add-on of Norton pop up by itself. ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; MSN Optimized;US)This link shows things to check - https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Could+not+initialize+the+browser+security+component
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Problem with File Based replication in Weblogic Express 10
Hi,
We have Web application (exploded war) file deployed on Weblogic Express 10, to a Cluster of three Managed Servers (all three on different physical machines).
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We have a shared location for all the three servers where we will be sharing the Session data.
When we start the application, its works fine and is very fast, but after sometime the application slows down.
Troubleshooting the Issue we found that its a problem with file based replication. By using File based replication every user session is stored in form of directory inside shared directory. So after sometime thousands of directories are created inside the shared directory where the session information is stored. So when we access the application, its waiting for lot of time with Message Session Monitor .... (this is because its browsing through the shared session storage directory for lot of time for session information as it has lot of directories) and finally after a long time like 10 mins we get the Application Home Page.
When we clean up all the saved sessions inside shared directory, the application works fine, But we will see the same sometime later may be after 3 or 4 hours when the shared session directory has lot of session information stored in it.
Is there a way to clean up the saved session information on file system as soon as that user session is closed by using file based replication.
We cannot used Inmemory replication as our Appl doesnt support it.
Please advice as it is a major show stopper in our Production Mirror env.
Weblogic ConsultantIt is possible to reduce number of live session by configuring very low timeout-secs weblogic.xml. Default is 60 minutes.
More details are here..
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs100/webapp/weblogic_xml.html#wp1071982
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Hello all,
I am making a simple HttpServlet, which takes input
from html page and saves in to a file, but I'm having a
bit of a problem with file permissions.
I'm getting the following exception
java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.io.FilePermission ./data/result read)
java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:264)
java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:427)
java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:532)
java.lang.SecurityManager.checkRead(SecurityManager.java:871)
java.io.File.exists(File.java:700)
SyksyHTTPServlet.doPost(SyksyHTTPServlet.java:31)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor52.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:243)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:517)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:275)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:161)The exception seems to occur when I'm trying to check whether the file already
exists or not.
The data directory has all permissions (read, write and execute) set for all users,
and I have made an empty file called result inside the data directory for testing.
This file has read and write permissions enabled for all users.
Here's my code
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class SyksyHTTPServlet extends HttpServlet
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException
int totalCount = 0;
List list;
String song = request.getParameter("song");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
File file = new File("./data/result");
if(file.exists()) // this is line 31, which seems to cause the exception
list = readFile(file);
else
file.createNewFile();
list = new ArrayList();
list.add(song);
writeFile(file, list);
for(int i = 0 ; i < list.size() ; i++)
out.println(list.get(i));
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException
doPost(request, response);
private List readFile(File file)
List list = null;
try
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis);
list = (ArrayList)ois.readObject();
ois.close();
catch(Exception e)
e.printStackTrace();
return list;
private void writeFile(File file, List list)
try
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(file);
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
oos.writeObject(list);
oos.flush();
oos.close();
catch(Exception e)
e.printStackTrace();
}I'm using Tomcat 5.5 on Ubuntu Linux, if that has anything to do with this.
I'll appreciate all help.
kari-mattiHello again.
I'm still having problems with this. I made
a simple servlet that reads from and writes
to text file. The reading part work fine on my
computer, but the writing doesn't, not even
an exception is thrown if the file exists that
I'm trying to write to. If I try to create a new
file I'll get an exception about file permissions.
I also asked a friend of mine to try this same
servlet on his windows computer and it works
as it should.
Here's the code
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
public class ReadServlet extends HttpServlet
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException
String s = "";
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
String docroot = getServletContext().getRealPath( "/" );
out.println("docroot: "+docroot);
File file = new File(docroot+"test.txt");
if(file.exists())
s = readFile(file);
out.println(s);
else
out.println("file not found");
//file.createNewFile(); // causes exception
//out.println("new file created.");
writeFile(file, "written by servlet");
out.println("Now look in the file "+file.getPath());
out.println("and see if it contains text 'written by servlet'");
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException
doPost(request, response);
private String readFile(File file)
FileInputStream fis = null;
BufferedInputStream bis = null;
DataInputStream dis = null;
String s = "";
try
fis = new FileInputStream(file);
bis = new BufferedInputStream(fis);
dis = new DataInputStream(bis);
s = dis.readLine();
fis.close();
bis.close();
dis.close();
catch(Exception e)
e.printStackTrace();
return s;
private void writeFile(File file, String s)
FileOutputStream fos = null;
BufferedOutputStream bos = null;
DataOutputStream dos = null;
try
fos = new FileOutputStream(file);
bos = new BufferedOutputStream(fos);
dos = new DataOutputStream(bos);
dos.writeChars(s);
fos.flush();
bos.flush();
dos.flush();
fos.close();
bos.close();
dos.close();
catch(Exception e)
e.printStackTrace();
}And if someone wants to test this servlet I can
give a war package.
Any advices?
kari-matti -
One of the desktops on my macbook 2007 steel case will not open.
The message i get on screen at login is that there is a problem with file vault.
my dissertation is on that desktop.
all other desktops/user accounts are unaffected and i have admin permissions on them
i recently upgraded to osx 10.9.4
how can i get back in?
chaiman 22If you restored the account to which the FileVault protected Home folder belonged, then you need to log into that account and enable FileVault.
If you just need access to the data in the FV protected Home folder, then locate the sparsebundle disc image file that contains the encrypted folder. Double-click on it as if to mount it. You will then need to enter the FV password associated with the account to gain access (this is NOT the admin nor login password.) -
I keep getting the following dialogue box when I start Firefox " Could not initialise the application's security component. The most probable cause is problems with files in your browser's profile directory. Please check that this directory has no read/write restrictions." I am not sure how to find or change the profile directory. I have gone to the Options: General: Save files to ...box but it wont allow me to browse to another file and the box remains blank. ideas please!
See [[Could not initialize the browser security component]]
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