Why am I getting 'File in use by Another User' and 'Application Sharing Violation' errors when trying to open & and save files?
- by GollyJer
We're getting this a lot lately.
Windows 2008 Server
Windows 7 & Vista Client PC's
Microsoft Office 2007
When a user tries opening a file on our network drive (word doc, excel spreadsheet, etc) the software reports the file is locked by 'another user' even when it's not. They're also seeing random 'Sharing Violation' errors when trying to save files to the network.
Possibly the same manifestation of the problem shows up when a user tries saving a local, on their own drive, non-network files and they get 'Can not save due to a Sharing Violation'.