What does "locked for Shared Use" mean, exactly?

WebBrewers3

Your appeal for additional reports to promote this issue up the support chain makes sense

Can we not just apply our names to this call?

I found this thread simply putting a loose description in a search engine

The comments from previous users seem reasonable ie 'have encountered this issue & the clear cache option doesn't work'

This is indicative of an underlying issue that hasn't been tackled, 'it just went away' isn't a fix

I am in the same situation, trying to manipulate a given file using my own logic app tells me I have locked the file

Yet I can open & edit it without issue

Below is a paraphrase of the error msg

{

"status": 423,

"message": "The file http://SharepointPath/MASTER.xlsx is locked for shared use by MyUserName [membership].\r\nclientRequestId: 2f97739a-3b33-420a-b91****",

"source": "https:// SharepointPath/_api/web/GetFileByServerRelativePath(decodedUrl=@p)/$value?@p='%2fsites% SharepointPath%2fMASTER.xlsx'",

"errors": [

"-2147018894",

"Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFileLockException"

]

}

But please do repro this issue on your end and respond.  This is a very common issue with my users too.  There is not predictability.

I think  it's hard for level 1 support here to repro an intermittent bug like this. From the many reports about it, it's clear it's not related to check out. Most likely it's another symptom of Msft's lack of expertise in the cloud storage space -  I don't think they've figured out co-authoring and a whole host of other authentication issues properly yet. So this needs to be escalated to a higher level that can dig into the why  of why it might happen. Since that won't happen here, I suggest everyone who experiences the bug submits a service request so more competent engineers are made aware of the problem.

Zheng, It would be more helpful if you could at least suggest other resources where this question might be answered.  It is rather frustrating to receive no assistance at all, when the question is quite clear and is obviously affecting a significant number of people. 

At a minimum, perhaps you could include a links to forums that *might* have an answer?  Or perhaps even do a quick search yourself and post a link to an answer or a quick statement like "I could not find anything in our forums, so I've created a new question for you.  Here is the link..."

Hi JishNath,

Thanks for sharing your experience with us. We'd like to explain that since the problem in original post has gone, and we focus on one problem in each thread, we suggest you post a new thread in our forum for the specific assistance.

Thanks for your understanding.

Tisky

But please do repro this issue on your end and respond.  This is a very common issue with my users too.  There is not predictability.

It can happen to any file, not a specific file.

it can happen even with your own name on it. And you havent checked out the file.

I have tried to explitily check out, and it allows you to check out - which alone is counter-intuitive.

Clearing cache doesnt do anything.

So, as of now, there is no way to fix the error.