# Automatic office file locking - does it work? next steps?

**URL:** <https://help.nextcloud.com/t/automatic-office-file-locking-does-it-work-next-steps/174735>\
**Category:** 💻 Desktop\
**Created:** [November 20, 2023, 3:19pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/automatic-office-file-locking-does-it-work-next-steps/174735 "2023-11-20T15:19:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hunduster](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/hunduster/32/58202_2.png) [@Hunduster](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/Hunduster)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 11:40am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/automatic-office-file-locking-does-it-work-next-steps/174735/2 "2023-11-21T11:40:10Z")

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I can confirm that it still doesn’t work for us.

Server version: 27.1.3  
Client: Windows 10 22H2  
Desktop client : 3.10.1

The calls for M365 are also getting louder and louder because we are doing project work and the conflicts are simply getting out of hand in the teams.

I had a meeting with Nextcloud GmbH last week about switching to the Enterprise version and they assured me in the call that file locking would work in any case. I also informed them that it doesn’t work in my private environment nor in our enterprise environment.

I [read](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/gleichzeitige-bearbeitung-von-dateien-file-locking-conflicted-copies/174726) today that you should sync the hidden files to get the .lock files. That was new to me (although logical). But that doesn’t seem to be the solution either?

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