Excel won't save files... Read Only

[abillybob]

Hello

 

This is hurting my brain but for some reason intermittently staff will be working on the shared area that is mapped to them via GP and then it opens the file as read only?

 

I have checked the permissions of the file and they have full control to the file under "Security" tab, I did see that the shared - advanced options - permissions, hadn't got their permissions in that.

 

Then it seemed to be ok once I quit Excel and re-opened the file, it would then let me save.

 

So I'm hoping this was the problem but unsure if it'll come back, has anyone seen this before?

 

Thanks in advance!!

[DJ-1701]

Only time I have seen something like that, the file has been opened by another user, but usually there is a notification of this... could it be that the file is being accessed at the time by anti-virus on the server? Or do you disable real time scanning?

[abillybob]

Only time I have seen something like that, the file has been opened by another user, but usually there is a notification of this... could it be that the file is being accessed at the time by anti-virus on the server? Or do you disable real time scanning?

No I've checked unfortunately no other user has it open, good call about AV I'll have a look.