libre office problem

[Lisa Kachold]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!


Welcome to Unix!  We like locking things!

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> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:
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>> Hi Michael,
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>> Do you see any lock files:
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>> # ls -al ~/*.lock
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>> 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.
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>> Reference:
>> http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/462850-problem-unlocking-libreoffice-locked-files.html
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>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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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