{"id":2189,"date":"2017-05-31T21:01:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T21:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2018-09-06T23:15:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T23:15:06","slug":"closing-locked-file-on-a-windows-2008-file-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=2189","title":{"rendered":"Closing Locked File On A Windows 2008 File Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common way to share files in a network is to use a file server, however when two users try to access the same file, that file will be locked to the second user.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.interworks.com\/sites\/default\/files\/blog\/u34\/Blog-CloseFile-SS1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"116\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If that user was not available to request that the file be closed (say for example they went on vacation and left the file open on their machine), one method is to forcefully close it from the file server.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>How to Forcefully Close a File<\/h2>\n<p>To close out of the locked file, log on to the file server as an administrator. Navigate to<strong> Share and Storage Management<\/strong>. This can be done by:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Right click on <strong>My Computer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click on <strong>Manage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.interworks.com\/sites\/default\/files\/blog\/u34\/Blog-CloseFile-SS2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or navigate to <em>Control Panel\\All Control Panel Items\\Administrative Tools<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Click on <strong>Share and Storage Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.interworks.com\/sites\/default\/files\/blog\/u34\/Blog-CloseFile-SS3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"124\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you navigated using <strong>Manage Server<\/strong>, select <strong>Share and Storage Management\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.interworks.com\/sites\/default\/files\/blog\/u34\/Blog-CloseFile-SS4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"112\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the far right hand side under Actions, click on Manage Open Files (this menu may take a moment to load).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.interworks.com\/sites\/default\/files\/blog\/u34\/Blog-CloseFile-SS5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another screen will pop up showing every folder and file that is open and what users are accessing what files.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Select the files the files needing to be closed.<\/p>\n<p>Click <strong>Close Selected<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.interworks.com\/sites\/default\/files\/blog\/u34\/Blog-CloseFile-SS6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"543\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A warning message will appear that the files will be forcefully closed.<\/p>\n<p>Note: If the user has not saved the open file, all data will be lost.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.interworks.com\/sites\/default\/files\/blog\/u34\/Blog-CloseFile-SS7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"178\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Once the file(s) have been closed, the file will now be accessible.<\/div>\n<div>Note: In some cases I have had to close the file and the folder containing the file as well to gain access to the file.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common way to share files in a network is to use a file server, however when two users try to access the same file, that file will be locked to the second user. If that user was not available to request that the file be closed (say for example they went on vacation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}