Permission issue

[hano08]

We have a file-based eap that works fine for 3 users on a shared network. However, today a new user were invited to start working with this eap, but she´s not able to open it.
The error-message reads something like:
"....It is already opened exclusively by another user, or you need permission to view its data"

No other user had that eap opened at the time.

Did a copy from that file, wich she was able to open.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

[Geert Bellekens]

a .eap file is an ms-access database.
If you open a .eap file it creates a .ldb "lock file".
Delete the lock file and you should be able to open the .eap file again.

Geert

[hano08]

Thanks Geert for your reply.
Problem is that it is not possible to delete the .ldb. Error message reads "Cannot delete <filename>: It is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try again."

Based on that you would think that there is a person who has the eap opened, but they assure me that is it not. There are four people sharing this eap.
Person A and B manage to open, edit and close the model. Person C and D cannot open the model at all. Person A is the one that created the eap originally, and that person is unable to delete the .ldb

Any other ideas?

Regards,
Hano

[qwerty]

Yep. The usual windoze solution: reboot!

q.

[Geert Bellekens]

Hano,

I would try to search google for this issue as it is a typical MS-Access problem. There must be other MS-Access users that had the same issue.

Geert

[hano08]

Ok,
Thanks. I try that, or I just make a copy of the file.