Another OS X Lion Weirdness

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Thu Aug 23 13:20:09 EDT 2012


See this article. First thing that popped up when I googled the message: 
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/locked_havent_made_changes_recently_error_mac_os_x_lion.html

Bob


On Aug 23, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> I just opened a document in the iWork/Numbers spreadsheet program that I
> hadn't opened for perhaps a couple of weeks.  It opened just fine but when
> I tried to make a change to it I got the message:
> 
> The file "Costs" is locked because you haven't made any changes to it
> recently.
> 
> There were options to Unlock, Work on a duplicate copy or Cancel the change.
> 
> So now Apple apparently thinks it's appropriate to silently lock files
> behind my back on the basis of me not accessing them for some arbitrary,
> unknown period of time.
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to switch off this"feature"?
> 
> Pete





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