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Suddenly can't share folders on my LAN from Windows 10 Pro
Let me make this clear. I was able to share folders on my LAN without the least problems until just recently. I made no changes. Microsoft did something and as usual they don't inform us. I went to their community forums and as always any relevant sounding thread is locked, even the most recent one from just updated today!
It is so frustrating being told the obvious steps for sharing that I already did and had working perfectly. WTF?
OK, I went to the file explorer, found my folder that was shared until yesterday. I tried to edit a text file (my access had read/write permissions and I am an Administrator). I had been able to save edited files until today in that folder. Now, suddenly I get a message saying that my file is locked!
I generally used this to be able to edit code while learning courses online. I have the folders in a development environment where I can easily shuffle relevant lecture source files during advancing lectures without having to do complete reinstallations for each lecture as a project progresses. I just did what I always did before. I began with a copy of the lecture transcript (many of which are hilariously bad), and then edited it while watching the lecture to make it clearer and understandable. I then save the edited file which in this case happens to be on my main Desktop PC running Windows 10.
As I always did before, I was using my Mac on the LAN to access the PC folder with the development environment, ran a script command to fire up a live server rendering the coded app on my browser in the Mac. I do that through the integrated terminal in Visual Code. I am apparently still able to edit code that is on the PC in that main shared (and all subfolders).
Windows is just blocking me from being able to save an edited text notes file, again, telling me the file is locked and the folder can't be shared.
Does someone know what is going on there? The MS Community forums were not helpful at all. Please give me an idea what caused this sudden change and how I can revert to a working Windows 10 Pro operating system with working local area network file sharing.
I'm not sharing across the Internet. Nobody has access to my LAN but me. I am the only user and an Administrator with full privileges where I need them. My next try here is going to have to be to log in on the actual Administrator account and see if I can get my sharing back. What a pain!
Oh yes, Windows 10, Pro, 10.0.18363
After reading about latest Windows update disaster and security vulnerability that says can instantly corrupt entire file system, I temporarily turned off automatic update, so I'm sure something is sitting there pending.