libre office problem

[Michael Havens]

yep.... all I had to do was to delete the lock file. Kinda a pain but oh
well! Thanks for the help. Libre office should allow us the option of
selecting to delete that file after it sees that it is in place!

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Do you see any lock files:
>
> # ls -al ~/*.lock
>
> This locking mechanism is more complex than Word or OpenOffice for .doc
> files - which are basically treated in a more secure format within the
> Linux system. Within the lock file is the name of another file that also
> must be deleted if you have in fact a locked document.
>
> Reference:
> http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/462850-problem-unlocking-libreoffice-locked-files.html
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a small problem, I 've been running rsync with no problem but I
>> just tried to open a libre office doc on the remote computer and the first
>> error I get is that the docuent needs to be recovered. So I click ' start
>> recovery' and the next error I get is that the document isw locked for
>> editing and that the remote computer has it open.... I think I figured it
>> out.... I had the document open when I was editing it. Let's see if that is
>> the problem. I guess I'm not so smert after all. It will let me open a copy
>> but not edit the actual file. I'm sure that somebody on here knows why it
>> is doing this. Would that person care to enlighten me and tell me.... how
>> do I fix this.
>>
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