>>>We had such problems before in my former job place. Once the file got locked, only re-booting the computer in question released this lock.
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>>We had to reboot a few times, too. At other times, I just boot the users (if a file called "maintenance.tmp" exists, the application quits automatically), but this doesn't always work.
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>>And, sometimes the problem disappears by itself after a few minutes.
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>>The problem is, this is happening almost every day, recently.
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>Sounds like some weird Network problems. Do you have a Network Admin whom you can work together on this problem?
I was suspecting that some recently designed process somehow opens the file exclusively - although I wouldn't know which one.
I will continue investigating, and consider the alternative explanation you proposed.
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