SharePoint Document Locked by Oneself

Have you ever locked a document in SharePoint unknowingly? This happens when one edits a document directly from the site and one of the following happens:
  • Network goes down
  • Office client application crashes
  • SharePoint site goes down
When this happens, you will not be able to overwrite the document as the document had been "locked" by you "for editing"!

There is no known way of unlocking the document.

The solution is to wait-it-out (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899709). Wait for 10 minutes for the server to auto unlock the document.

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