One
of the user from my project reported that he was not able to edit as well as
check out the office documents. When i tried to follow the same procedure (i.e.
Edit, check-in, check-out) and strange thing was me also got the same error
message. When i started my troubleshooting, I found out user created document
library with multiple nested folders.
When
we go to third or fourth level of the folder and try to edit any file with
office application, we are getting an error – The document could not be opened
for editing. A Windows SharePoint Services compatible application could not be
found to edit the document. However if we try to edit the document uploaded on
the root of the document library, we can edit it properly.
I
tried reproduced the issue 2-3 times and found out one common thing and that
is: You cannot edit the office document once the
URL path reaches characters limit 340. You can edit the documents only till URL
path length is up to 339 characters. You can open the documents, you can upload
documents but you can't edit them by right click on document and click on
"edit in Microsoft Word". Even this behavior is same with non-office
documents also like text documents.
Workaround:
The only workaround possible is - open the file directly from
the folder, modify and save it as a new file. Every time you need to save it as
a new file. It won’t allow to save in the existing file. Or, Move the file one
level up and you will be able to do all the operations like edit, check-in and
check-out too.
I
hope the above information helps you to resolve your problem and time also!!
Thanks!!
