Re: TOT problem with Word 2007

On 11/12/2011 10:42, Graham. wrote:
On 11/12/2011 05:39, John Rumm wrote:
On 11/12/2011 01:31, Bill Wright wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
On 09/12/2011 21:26, Bill Wright wrote:
I have two 730KB .doc files which won't let me delete or move them
because 'they are open in Word'. But I'm not running Word. Both
claim to
be read-only files (so can only be saved to a different file name).
But
in 'properties' they are not 'read-only', and making them so and then
changing back doesn't help.

Ideas anyone?

Sometimes word fails to exit properly and can leave a process running
even when you think it has been closed. Run task manager and look for
winword.exe in the process list. Click to select it and then click the
end process button if its there.

Pooter has been turned off several times since then, no winword.exe
running.


Secondly, look in the folder containing the file you want to open and
see if there is a word temporary file there with a similar name. If
there is, then delete that.
No there ain't.

Might be worth checking the file ownership permissions then. Open a
command prompt (type CMD into the Run box if necessary), go to the
directory with the file in question and type

CACLS <filename>

Compare the result to that of a file you can edit.

It may be that the non editable file is not read only, but your username
do not have permission to write to it.

(you can add it with "CACLS <filename> /G Everyone:F")



C:\>cacls

NOTE: Cacls is now deprecated, please use Icacls. (Windows 7)

It is, although I don't know what OS Bill is running, and CALCS is still there on win7 even if it refers you to icalcs some of the time...

iCacls? Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

These are both new commands to me, I know a bit about tinkering with
DACLs in the GUI, wouldn't that have been a more accessible place to
point Bill?

Sometimes "type this" is a far less verbose exercise than textually navigating someone through a GUI.


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Cheers,

John.

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