I have more information regarding locked files in SharePoint, these have been commonly read posts.
This is from Ian Morrish’s blog, you should all have it in your feed anyway..
He discusses the traps and tricks for Check in and Check out, but it also has this detail on locking time outs for files
This is interesting and something to beware of when rolling out to different Operating Systems. I wonder how these timeout can be changed esp the Vista one as it seem a little long. Let me know if you find out where…..
Go and read his good post http://www.wssdemo.com/Blog/archive/2008/11/03/.aspx
