Hi Lennart,

We see this often in our environment. when Excel opens a file, a temp file (~somewhat) is createted and deleted, when the file is closed. If Excel crashes, or the connection is broken, the tmp file is orphaned and never be deleted automaticly anymore. If the file is opened by the user A and user B tries to open the file, Excel reads the owner of the tmp file (user C) and reports that this user has the file open. Simply delete the tmp file while the sheet is not opened and the next time the tmp file is created with the correct file owner.

Arndt

Hello Arndt,

That worked out fine, thanks for your help

/Lennart

ah yes,  where one needs to occasionally run a "del *.tmp /s" and/or "del ~*.* /s" from the drive in question to catch all of those orphaned files.  To the point I have a cleanup.bat in my search path.

REM  cleanup.bat   
REM  to clean up those temp files that still get littered by applications 
REM    when they don't properly cleanup after themselves
REM  Created by Andy Konecny some time last century and still used regularly
del *.tmp /s
del *.temp /s
del ~*.* /s
del *.bak /s
del thumbs.db /s

It doesn't touch the files that are in actual use, and though it misses the hidden ones, it brings the issue down to a dull roar.

you can use 

find /media/nss/ -type f -name '~$*.*' -delete

on the server console, if you wan't you can script it and run periodicly via cron