cant open files on network

I've mentioned this before but I now have a bit more info.

This is a simple wired network - desktop and laptop.

Occasionally (quite often, really... but not always) the laptop will
not open a document which is on the desktop. The document is usually,
perhaps always, a WordPerfect document; but this doesn't apply to all
WordPerfect documents. The document is in a shared folder on the
desktop.

When attempting to open on the laptop, the error message In Use or Read
Only appears. If I click on Yes ("you may open but not edit. Do you
want to?) I then get Access Denied.

There is no common thread here. The documents' property sheets are
identical to other documents (eg they are not read-only documents).

Recreating the documents with new names often solves the problem.

This continues to happen even with some new documents.

Otherwise the network works fine; and that includes most WordPerfect
documents.

Please can somebody help?

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Trevor Wright

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:32:46 +0000, Trevor Wright
<(E-Mail Removed)> mused:

>I've mentioned this before but I now have a bit more info.
>
>This is a simple wired network - desktop and laptop.
>
>Occasionally (quite often, really... but not always) the laptop will
>not open a document which is on the desktop. The document is usually,
>perhaps always, a WordPerfect document; but this doesn't apply to all
>WordPerfect documents. The document is in a shared folder on the
>desktop.
>
>When attempting to open on the laptop, the error message In Use or Read
>Only appears. If I click on Yes ("you may open but not edit. Do you
>want to?) I then get Access Denied.
>
>There is no common thread here. The documents' property sheets are
>identical to other documents (eg they are not read-only documents).
>
>Recreating the documents with new names often solves the problem.
>
>This continues to happen even with some new documents.
>
>Otherwise the network works fine; and that includes most WordPerfect
>documents.
>
>Please can somebody help?

Have you tried moving the folder off the desktop (just stick it in
root) and create a shortcut to it from the desktop.

Possibly something is doing something with the files because they are
on the desktop, might not be but worth a try.
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Regards,
Stuart.

In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Lurch
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>
>Have you tried moving the folder off the desktop (just stick it in
>root)
I'm sorry, I don't know what this means
>and create a shortcut to it from the desktop.
>
>Possibly something is doing something with the files because they are
>on the desktop, might not be but worth a try.

Yes. But by "desktop" I meant the desktop computer, as opposed to
"laptop", not the desktop of the computer. The files are in a folder in
the C drive of the main ("desktop") computer.

--
Trevor Wright

"Trevor Wright" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Lurch
> <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>>
>>Have you tried moving the folder off the desktop (just stick it in
>>root)
> I'm sorry, I don't know what this means
>>and create a shortcut to it from the desktop.
>>
>>Possibly something is doing something with the files because they are
>>on the desktop, might not be but worth a try.
>
> Yes. But by "desktop" I meant the desktop computer, as opposed to
> "laptop", not the desktop of the computer. The files are in a folder in
> the C drive of the main ("desktop") computer.

Are you using simple filesharing, with the same username/workgroup
on both the desktop PC and the laptop? If so, it might be worth
sharing the root of C:, again, on the desktop PC, while the laptop
is connected. The only other thing I can think of is that some
background process on the desktop PC is opening and locking the
files temporarily - maybe a badly behaved anti-virus scanner?
HTH,
--
Rob