Runtime error while opening an oft template - excel

Question

I have a mailing tool to create Outlook templates. The templates are stored as OLEObjects in one of the worksheets.
To use the templates I am creating a copy of them in the Temp folder. Afterwards the tool references it directly and opens with CreateItemFromTemplate. This works only on my PC. Others in my company get an error.
Code recreating the OLE object:
Sub RecreateObject(ObjectName As String, TemplateName As String) 'creates a copy of the template stored in config in the users temp folder so that we can reference it from hard drive
Dim objShell As Object
Dim objFolder As Variant
Dim objFolderItem As Variant
Dim oleObj As OLEObject
Set objShell = CreateObject("shell.application")
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace(Environ("USERPROFILE") & "\Documents" & Application.PathSeparator)
Set objFolderItem = objFolder.Self
Set oleObj = wsConfig.OLEObjects(ObjectName)
'On Error GoTo Error1:
oleObj.Copy
If Dir(CStr(Environ("USERPROFILE") & "\Documents\" & TemplateName & ".oft"), vbDirectory) = vbNullString Then
objFolderItem.InvokeVerb ("Paste")
Else
Kill Environ("USERPROFILE") & "\Documents\" & TemplateName & ".oft"
oleObj.Copy
objFolderItem.InvokeVerb ("Paste")
End If
EndThisSub:
Set objShell = Nothing
Set objFolder = Nothing
Set objFolderItem = Nothing
Set oleObj = Nothing
Exit Sub
Error1:
MsgBox "Please re-open this file - template recreation failed."
GoTo EndThisSub:
End Sub
Code opening the template:
Sub OpenTemplate(TemplateName As String, InsHeight As Long, InsWidth As Long, InsTop As Long, InsLeft As Long)
Dim response
Dim varEditedTempBody As Variant, varEditedTempSubject As Variant
'On Error GoTo Error1:
Set objOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
'On Error GoTo Error2:
If objMail Is Nothing Then 'checks if any mails opened, if not fires procedure
If curProcess = AddingTemplate Then
Set objMail = objOutlook.CreateItem(0)
Set objInspector = objMail.GetInspector
objMail.Display
objMail.Body = "" 'clearing the automatic signature
End If
If curProcess = EditingTemplate Then
Set objMail = objOutlook.CreateItemFromTemplate(Environ("USERPROFILE") & "\Documents\" & frmTemplates.Controls(TemplateName).Value & ".oft")
'clearing the automatic signature by copying in the template after displaying
varEditedTempBody = objMail.HTMLBody
varEditedTempSubject = objMail.Subject
Set objMail = objOutlook.CreateItemFromTemplate(Environ("USERPROFILE") & "\Documents\" & frmTemplates.Controls(TemplateName).Value & ".oft")
With objMail
.Display
.HTMLBody = varEditedTempBody
.Subject = varEditedTempSubject
End With
Set objInspector = objMail.GetInspector
End If
With objInspector
.WindowState = 2
.Height = InsHeight
.Width = InsWidth
.Top = InsTop
.Left = InsLeft
End With
Else
response = MsgBox("A mail template is already opened. Would you like to proceed and close it without save?", vbYesNo)
If response = vbYes Then 'if user agrees to closing procedure fires
Call CloseTemplate
If curProcess = AddingTemplate Then
Set objMail = objOutlook.CreateItem(0)
Set objInspector = objMail.GetInspector
objMail.Display
objMail.Body = "" 'clearing the automatic signature
End If
If curProcess = EditingTemplate Then
Set objMail = objOutlook.CreateItemFromTemplate(Environ("USERPROFILE") & "\Documents" & Application.PathSeparator & frmTemplates.Controls(TemplateName).Value & ".oft")
varEditedTempBody = objMail.HTMLBody
varEditedTempSubject = objMail.Subject
Set objMail = objOutlook.CreateItemFromTemplate(Environ("USERPROFILE") & "\Documents" & Application.PathSeparator & frmTemplates.Controls(TemplateName).Value & ".oft")
With objMail
.Display
.HTMLBody = varEditedTempBody
.Subject = varEditedTempSubject
End With
Set objInspector = objMail.GetInspector
End If
With objInspector
.WindowState = 2
.Height = InsHeight
.Width = InsWidth
.Top = InsTop
.Left = InsLeft
End With
Else
objMail.Display
Exit Sub
End If
End If
ExitThisSub:
Exit Sub
Error1:
MsgBox "Cannot open the Outlook application. Please note that mailer uses Outlook by default and without it it's not possible to use the program."
GoTo ExitThisSub:
Error2:
MsgBox "The template cannot be opened from hard drive. Please contact ...."
GoTo ExitThisSub:
End Sub
I get the error on this line:
Set objMail = objOutlook.CreateItemFromTemplate(Environ("USERPROFILE") & "\Documents\" & frmTemplates.Controls(TemplateName).Value & ".oft")
saying: run-time error '-2147286960(80030050)' Cannot open the file /path/ . the file may not exist, you may not have the permission to open it...
I read about this and the suggestion was that an instance of objOutlook may somehow lock the file. So I've set it to nothing everywhere after playing with templates or recreating them but it still returned this error.

Answer 1

Your file or directory is ReadOnly. Change the properties of the directory and that's all.