I had been asked to look at a SharePoint event receiver that wasn’t behaving as it should. After a document had been checked in, it would set a property and update the item. However, we were getting an error:

SPException: The file “[File Name]” is locked for exclusive use by [User]

This was unfortunate – the user was the user who’d just been making changes, and the code was running after the document had been checked in – so what gives? Well, it turns out that the message is right – the file is locked, not checked out, and a lock is not the same as a check-out.
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