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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...
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.
Thanks for the solution, It reduces my headache.