Lemonde
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4 years ago
Hello,

We are seeing this error when saving Excel Spreadsheets that are definitely not in use:

Excel Error: Someone else is working on %filepath% right now. Please try again later

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The file is on a file server running Windows Storage Server.

Sometime is it happens with shared files and some times with just normal files.

We use Office 365 on Remote Desktop 2012 R2 as the client machine.

We have about 12 users.
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Lemonde
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4 years ago
We have been testing the following registry addition, it has been improving things so far but the jury is still out.

https://www.sircles.net/downloads/excel-file-in-Use.zip 



drdread
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3 years ago
That solution worked OK for us, thanks.