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Mirek_N
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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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fakhrula
Copper Contributor
Mar 13, 2019
Mirek_N wrote:

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 any idea what to do with it? I just found that there is problem with OneDrive and synchronization. We have own Content type on this library but I just try to edit document directly from library and it is not possible.

I got the same issue before. What I had figured out, it happened after I synced my SharePoint library with the onedrive client in my PC. To solve the problem, I un-sync the library by unticking it from the settings. 

 

Hope this also works for others.

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David Isaac
Copper Contributor
Mar 13, 2019

There used to be a bug that caused MS Word Desktop checkin to lock a file read-only if it was synced with OneDrive.  The workaround was to either unsync the library from OneDrive, or only use checkin from SharePoint via your browser.  

 

For me, this bug seems to have been fixed.  I can use Word Desktop checkin on synced libraries without issue.  

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