Excel saving issues error: Someone else is working right now, please try again later"

Question

I am running W8.1 with Office 2013 and accessing a shared drive, When I try to save an excel document back to the shared drive - I get the error msg

"Someone else is working in \\servername\share\filename right now, please try again later"

I can see that there is no one else accessing this file at all. I created a brand new file, added content, saved and got the same error.

When I use a W7 with Office 2013 accessing the same share drive, accessing the same file - I am able to save the document without issues.

Does anyone have any ideas what this could be.  Both of these situations are while working from home using a company vpn connection. It does not happen when in the office using either W8.1 or W7.

Peter.

Original title: Excel saving issues

Edited to : Excel saving issues  error: Someone else is working in \\servername\share\filename right now, please try again later"

Answer 1

Hi Peter,

Thank you for choosing Microsoft Community.

Verify if you are able to save the file locally on the hard drive and then access it.

If the issue only while trying to edit or saving the file to shared drive, then I would suggest you to post your query in the forum below for better suggestions:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?forum=excel

Thank you.

Or DEEPA why don't you provide the assistance he needs?

**** A, two techs in two posts offering **** advise.

Answer 2

I am running W8.1 with Office 2013 and accessing a shared drive, When I try to save an excel document back to the shared drive - I get the error msg

"Someone else is working in \\servername\share\filename right now, please try again later"

I can see that there is no one else accessing this file at all. I created a brand new file, added content, saved and got the same error.

When I use a W7 with Office 2013 accessing the same share drive, accessing the same file - I am able to save the document without issues.

Does anyone have any ideas what this could be.  Both of these situations are while working from home using a company vpn connection. It does not happen when in the office using either W8.1 or W7.

Peter.

Original title: Excel saving issues

Edited to : Excel saving issues  error: Someone else is working in \\servername\share\filename right now, please try again later"

Hello, I was having the same Issue with Excel2013, what I did to resolve this was to first make a NetworkDrive mapping to the shared folder, under the mapping I checked the "Use different Credentials" and made sure I was using an account with read/write access to the share.  After this I went and opened the file, made several edits and saves and message didn't appear again.

Hope this helps anyone you and the rest of the community.

Answer 3

Hi there,

Yep tried that as well, still it happens ...

Answer 4

Hi Peter,

Thank you for choosing Microsoft Community.

Verify if you are able to save the file locally on the hard drive and then access it.

If the issue only while trying to edit or saving the file to shared drive, then I would suggest you to post your query in the forum below for better suggestions:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?forum=excel

Thank you.