A reply to Keith McKenna.
Found it. Things work fine. This was just an intellectual issue for me - the work around was trivial. I have never actually tested one of these backup files - I simply copied them to the drives. Installing the files onto this new machine was a first. Somehow, I don't understand it, but somehow those "lock" files came with the .ods files themselves. There were actually several in different backup folders. For other Mac users, the cmd + shift + "." keys make hidden files visible in Finder. You can also find them in a terminal window but this was easier. Thanks. ________________________________ From: Keith N. McKenna <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2018 9:40 PM To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Configuration Control Issue On 11/1/2018 6:44 PM, chuck ef wrote: > So, as I mentioned in an earlier email, I bought a new iMac and it is using > 10.14.1 (Mojave). I have been in the process of setting it up with files from > the old iMac. I use two backup eternal drives (for redundancy). I just today > put those files onto the new machine (USB-C is wonderful). > > > As it happens, there are two versions, different dates, of a spreadsheet (an > .ods file) with the same name - in two separate folders, associated with one > backup drive or the other. I opened up the one with the older date (as it > happened) to address an earlier issue identified another OO user (jerky > scrolling in Mojave). I closed that file and tried to open up the other > version (with a newer date but same name, though different folder) - I get a > message that this file is locked by me blah blah blah - do I want read-only, > copy, cancel? > > > Never happened before. I tried quitting OO but that did not release the file; > I went back to the older-date version to see if there is something I can do > to release it. Nothing. > > > Maybe reboot? > > > Not a big deal in any sense but I am curious about what OO is doing since > these are two different files (different dates, different paths) - the only > similarity is the name. > > > Thanks. > It sounds like AOO did not release the lock file for some reason. The first think to do s check the directories on each disk that you opened the file from and see if there is a file of the form.~lck.filename.ods. If you find one delete it and then try to open the file again. If there is none or deleting it does not work reply back to the list with that information and someone will try to walk you through other possibilities. Please reply only yo the list address at mailto:users@openoffice.apache.org Regards Keith
