IIRC, WinNT locked files upon writing them to CD, which may be why you found that the files were locked on such "vintage" Fm files.
-Matt Matt R. Sullivan co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11 P: 714.798.7596 | C: 714.585.2335 | matt at mattrsullivan.com @mattrsullivan LinkedIn facebook mattrsullivan.com On Jun 11, 2013, at 9:13 AM, todd.bersley at teradyne.com wrote: > Thanks, Harro. > > Unlocking the read-only FrameMaker file did the trick. Curious that in 15 > years of using Frame, I hadn't encountered a locked Frame file. Now that I > know about it, I see this question has been answered a few times before. > > > *************** > Todd Bersley > > > > <graycol.gif>Harro de Jong ---06/11/2013 06:05:46 AM---You may have two > problems: 1. file permissions in Windows > > From: Harro de Jong <Harro.deJong at triviewgroup.com> > To: "todd.bersley at teradyne.com" <todd.bersley at teradyne.com>, "framers > at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com> > Date: 06/11/2013 06:05 AM > Subject: RE: Converting Older Frame Files to Frame 10: Cannot Lock File > Error Message > > > > > You may have two problems: > 1. file permissions in Windows > 2. file set as read-only in FrameMaker. > You've solved 1. > for 2. the symptoms are missing menu items (you can't save or edit, and the > only menus shown are File, Edit, Navigation, Window, Help). To unlock a file, > type Esc Flk (note the uppercase F, lowercase L, lowercase K). > > Harro de Jong > > > > todd.bersley at teradyne.com wrote: > > I just received a batch of 200+ FrameMaker 4, 5.5, and 6 files that I need to > get into Frame 10 and then convert into Word and PDF. However, when I try to > open them in either Frame 7 or Frame 10, I get the following error message: > "Cannot lock this file for your use. Your changes to it may conflict with the > work of other users. File <file path name>". > > When I click Continue the file opens, but I cannot edit it or use the Save As > button, since it is not available. > > I tried changing permissions on all the files, which appeared to be > successful since they no longer indicate that they are read-only and the > security settings have grey checkmarks indicating I have write permissions. > After changing > permissions, the error message no longer comes up, but I still can't edit the > files and do not have access to the Save As command. But clearly, some > setting in the old Frame file is prohibiting me from editing the file. I can > print a PDF file, and then use > Acrobat to save it into a Word file, but this is a very roundabout way to get > these files into Frame 10. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as matt at mattrsullivan.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/matt%40mattrsullivan.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130611/9083001b/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: twitter.png Type: image/png Size: 1331 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130611/9083001b/attachment.png> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: linkedin.png Type: image/png Size: 1380 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130611/9083001b/attachment-0001.png> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: facebook.png Type: image/png Size: 1576 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130611/9083001b/attachment-0002.png> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: blog.png Type: image/png Size: 1222 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130611/9083001b/attachment-0003.png>
