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Mirek_N
Iron Contributor
Jun 26, 2018

Document in "Read-only" mode all the time

Hi, I tried to find a solution here but I was not successful. I have SharePoint library and when we want edit word document in desktop application, document is opened as a "Read-only". Do you have an...
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Hilla_Mantyomena
Copper Contributor
Oct 15, 2018

I experienced this same problem (everything opened in read-only mode) and after I tried all the tips and tricks I  could find, this is the only one that worked for me: I stopped syncing the document library. 

 

I re-synced the document library, and now the status of the files is clearly "read only":

I have never seen this "read-only" status before and I just cannot figure out why these files are locked while other libraries are just fine. 

The only difference between the files is that the locked files are from a communication site and the files that work okay are from team sites. Otherwise the settings are the same and I have full ownership to all of them.

Ugh. This drives me crazy.

  • TKopica's avatar
    TKopica
    Copper Contributor
    May 19, 2020

    Hilla_Mantyomenaas far as I know, the read only mode in the file explorer is set, when the synced list is set to have mandatory file tags. The explorer can't deal with it.

  • ReneMB18's avatar
    ReneMB18
    Copper Contributor
    May 11, 2020

    Hilla_MantyomenaSame over here. I kept having issues with read-only, unsynced from OneDrive, and now this is no longer an issue.

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