Re: Excel "file is locked" error message -- bizarre!

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From: Rob Bovey
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 00:00

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    Can you make a copy of it and open the copy? If it's on an FAT partition
you could try booting from a floppy and accessing it that way. You can also
get a program that will allow you to boot to an NTFS volume from a floppy
drive at http://www.sysinternals.com/

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Eric Gafner wrote in message <7dh71e$pk6$1@nntp.ironlight.com>...
>Hello everyone,
>
> We have an excel file on a PDC. All of the sudden, the file could
> no longer be accessed. We keep getting a "file is locked" error.
>
> We have rebooted the PDC, and tried to rename the file. We tried to
> access the file from both Win95 and NT workstations. We have also
> checked the file permissions. The file is shared and even the file
> owner cannot access it. We have made sure that no-one has the
> file open.
>
>                                                 any ideas will be
>appreciated,
>
>Eric
>
>
>
>

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From: "Rob Bovey" <Rob_Bovey@msn.com>
Subject: Re: Excel "file is locked" error message -- bizarre!
Date: 1999/03/27
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