Sharing Violation

Scott Phelps sphelps at ridgways.com
Tue Jun 1 15:11:51 GMT 2004


On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 10:34, Seb James wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 15:23, Scott Phelps wrote:
> > I have a user using Excel.  When they save a new spreadsheet permissions
> > are 700, However, when they try to re-save the same file they get a
> > Sharing Violation and the file permissions get changed to 070!  What
> > gives?
> 
> This might be an MS office thing, I think. Excel (and Word) open the
> file, save it as a temp file whilst you work on it, then save this file
> on top of the original with funny permissions. Have certainly heard of
> this problem with Word, anyway.
> 

Is there a work-around?  Maybe an op-lock tweak?



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