Handling Locked Office Files issue In Power Automate Inspired by the workaround described by Pieter Veenstra System Updates in SharePoint from Power Automate using the ValidateUpdateListItem endpoint to help with the locked file issue, this post covers file version creation as well. File Locked Issue File lock issues in Power Automate can occur due to: The file being opened by a user. The file being updated by a Power Automate flow, which may take up to 6 minutes to release the lock.