File Locking - Cannot Save While Another User

DocumentID: 651731
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:09 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: User 1 goes into List Files to look (F5, 6) at a document. While User 1 is looking, User 2 retrieves that same file and gets a Read Only status on the document until User 1 quits looking at it. Another problem is if User 1 has the file already retrieved and User 2 goes to look at the file in List Files, User 1 receives "Access Denied" when he tries to save the document. Solutions: WordPerfect is working as designed. WP looks to the operating system to determine how to display a locked file. The operating system treats a file differently depending on if it is being looked at, saved, or retrieved. WP can only let the user know if a file is open when the user goes to retrieve or save a file. If this were not so, WP would continually have to poll the server to find out the condition of each file, and this would not be possible.

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