/ / Announcement: On Wednesday, December 5, starting at 9:00am PST 12:00pm EST, Apple Support Communities will be down a portion of the day. Please pardon our dust as we work behind the scenes to make improvements to the community. We appreciate your patience. Read announcement Hide announcement On Wednesday, December 5, starting at 9:00am PST 12:00pm EST, Apple Support Communities will be down a portion of the day. Please pardon our dust as we work behind the scenes to make improvements to the community. We appreciate your patience. I spent a few hours trying to unlock an OpenOffice file that was 'locked for editing by an unknown user' using a number of strategies including Terminal and my Administrative account.

.having this problem with getting the message 'File in use - File is locked for editing by another user. Open I'm not sure if this is caused by windows 10. This file happened to be This is surface pro 3 running windows 10 Pro with office 365. Mac 2011 Beta 6: MMGC8-469V6-WMYXY-FCT9C-9GVYC Outlook:Mac 2011 Beta 6: TRTWQ-4VGHQ-C72R6-GTVFR-W4TC6 New updated method 1) First download this file com.microsoft.office.licensing.plist. Do NOT copy the numbers and letters in this file.

There are a number of obstacles to each of these strategies. I was able to identify the hidden files but unless you are very good at this sort of thing, gaining access to the needed disk images and deleting only the desired files will be difficult.

Purchase zoo tycoon 2 for mac. I would suggest the simple strategy I finally used which is a lot easier. Open the locked file in 'read only' mode and either rename it or save it in a new or different directory. Since I needed to keep the same names for the filename and folder, after saving the files into a new folder, I deleted the original folder and that also deletes the offending hidden file. Microsoft office for mac 2011 activation key.

Then I simply renamed the new folder and file with the old names and everything works fine. OSX wisely, I think in most instances, makes it difficult to delete hidden files. In this instance, I believe my problem was brought on by unmounting a disk image containing a file that was being edited, so the 'unknown user' was actually me. I will henceforth be a little more careful about closing files and mounted disk images. Apple Footer • This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums.