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Posted by: Lemonde - 13 June 2019 15:30:22
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 [img=https://www.sircles.net/downloads/excel-error1.png]Excel Error: Someone else is working on file right now. Please try again later[/img] The file is on a file server running Windows Storage Server. Sometime is it happens with [i]shared[/i] 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.

Posted by: Lemonde - 13 June 2019 16:57:26
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

Posted by: drdread - 11 September 2020 11:56:59
That solution worked OK for us, thanks.