Comments on: Workaround for Office and network home directories. http://explanatorygap.net/2005/07/17/workaround-for-office-and-network-home-directories/ many a slip 'twixt mind and lip... Mon, 10 May 2010 22:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Peter Hanson http://explanatorygap.net/2005/07/17/workaround-for-office-and-network-home-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-1546 Peter Hanson Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:52:07 +0000 http://explanatorygap.net/2005/07/17/workaround-for-office-and-network-home-directories/#comment-1546 Hi Nigel, I have been faced with a similar problem using network home directories and Office 2008 under OS X server and client 10.5.x. We are not using FileVault homes. I have implemented your fix on a couple of my user's accounts, but there has been no change in the way that Office works. We are still getting the "Can't open this file because xxxx is using it." etc. errors. Can you suggest anything else? --phanson Hi Nigel,

I have been faced with a similar problem using network home directories and Office 2008 under OS X server and client 10.5.x. We are not using FileVault homes. I have implemented your fix on a couple of my user’s accounts, but there has been no change in the way that Office works. We are still getting the “Can’t open this file because xxxx is using it.” etc. errors. Can you suggest anything else?

–phanson

]]> By: Nigel Kersten http://explanatorygap.net/2005/07/17/workaround-for-office-and-network-home-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-1541 Nigel Kersten Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:02:25 +0000 http://explanatorygap.net/2005/07/17/workaround-for-office-and-network-home-directories/#comment-1541 Dear Past Nigel, At 8:00 someone will poison the coffee. Do not drink the coffee! So I was trying to find a solution for a similar related problem with FileVault homes (that also are a separate partition) with Office 2008, and Googling for it actually eventually brought up my own old blog post on this. Here's the fix for Office 2008 for and this problem. rm -Rf Preferences/Microsoft/Office\ 2008/Office\ Registration\ Cache\ 2008 touch Preferences/Microsoft/Office\ 2008/Office\ Registration\ Cache\ 2008 chflags uchg Preferences/Microsoft/Office\ 2008/Office\ Registration\ Cache\ 2008 The error message is a bit different in this case, Office for us at least on NFS/SMB shares will complain that the file is corrupt and it is unable to open it. Dear Past Nigel, At 8:00 someone will poison the coffee. Do not drink the coffee!

So I was trying to find a solution for a similar related problem with FileVault homes (that also are a separate partition) with Office 2008, and Googling for it actually eventually brought up my own old blog post on this.

Here’s the fix for Office 2008 for and this problem.

rm -Rf Preferences/Microsoft/Office\ 2008/Office\ Registration\ Cache\ 2008
touch Preferences/Microsoft/Office\ 2008/Office\ Registration\ Cache\ 2008
chflags uchg Preferences/Microsoft/Office\ 2008/Office\ Registration\ Cache\ 2008

The error message is a bit different in this case, Office for us at least on NFS/SMB shares will complain that the file is corrupt and it is unable to open it.

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