Raw View Locking Files with Office 2010 files (Win 10)

[avsfan]

I recently got a new computer with Windows 10 on it, and have noticed a couple of odd behaviors, particularly with Excel 2010 and Word 2010 when XY's Info Panel is in Raw View mode.

Situation: I have a .xlsx file open in Excel. If the file is selected in XY (such as if I just opened it) and I try to save in Excel:

• If the file is on a network drive, I get an error message that the file is in use and I should try again later. If I change the view to Preview (or any other tab in the Info Panel), or even just clear the selection by clicking elsewhere in the list, I can save the file as expected.

• If the file is on a local drive, I get an error message (after a long delay) that my changes could not be saved because of a sharing violation (and it's not being shared).

In Word, things are a bit different, but still have issues when I try to save:

• Network drive: sometimes it will save, but takes much longer to save when XY is in Raw View than another mode, and sometimes I get a message in XY that Raw View Failed because "the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process."

• Local drive: The "Save As..." dialog opens when XY is in Raw View on the selected file...

Weird stuff!

I can't remember having this problem under Windows 7, and expected more of a problem with, for example, Preview rather than Raw View...

Any idea why this would happen? (using XY 20.60.0404)

[avsfan]

I have worked around the issue by just excluding the Office files from Raw View, but I'm still curious why it was happening...

[admin]

Raw View in Hex mode definitely locks a file.

Other than that I can only say. Office has always been strange. It's in its genes...