You may want to give it a read for background information before mapping a drive. If the deletion was a mistake, you can restore the file from the recycle bin of the site or restore from the OneDrive where it was deleted from. That's disappointing.Ī total side note, but as I was looking into this I came across a great article that explains the difference between using WebDAV and FPRPC with SharePoint. To save your work, you'll need to save a copy of the file.

Incidentally, I think this workaround is also an oversight, because if I disable the ability to add folders to my document library I can still add them in Windows Explorer through the New Folder button using the mapped drive. If you are using a previous version this may not happen to you. Strange thing, though, when I saved the document to a folder I created through the dialog I got an error from the Microsoft Office Upload Manager telling me that the document could not be uploaded. I did just that, and it added the folder. If you map a drive to the document library following the instructions at, then you can specify z: for example in your Office Save As dialaog and the New Folder button will appear. If you type in the address from the Office Save As dialog, the dialog looks more 'SharePointy' and the create folder button is gone. In other words, if you launch Windows Explorer outside of Office and type in the address to your document library, it still looks and feels like a normal folder and you can create a folder just fine. However, it appears that the 'New Folder' button has only been taken away if you do the 'Save As' from within Office and the dialog detects it is a SharePoint site. So I figured they disabled the 'New Folder' button entirely to correct that issue. The reason I say that is because if you turn off the Create Folder functionality in the document library settings, it disables it from the web browser but still allows 'New Folder' in Windows explorer.

He can see that it says there are 'x' number of other users editing the file - when he looks at the users it shows him and another person in this case. This doesn't make sense, but he opens it in Word. To be honest with you, it didn't seem like this should be allowed in XP to me. When he tries to open it is says on SharePoint that the file is being edited in Word 2010 for some reason.

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