Re: Excel Denying Access to Workbook that I Own
- From: thefronny@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:13:57 -0700
On Jul 31, 12:05 pm, thefro...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
All,
This is on a new 15" ibook that had it's files and programs
transferred from an old 12" Powerbook. It's using Excel 2004 for Mac
(which, by the way, is telling me it's a test drive with 30 days
left.)
I have a 9.6MB workbook in a shared folder on a Windows server. I log
in as a valid user of the Windows domain, navigate to the workbook and
double-click it. Excel opens it. I pick an empty cell and enter some
text and hit Save. Excel's progress bar runs a bit and then stops and
tells me it cannot save the changes to the file, and the changes have
been saved to a file called, e.g. 24689000. I'm supposed to open that
file and re-name it.
If I close everything and try to open the original file Excel tells me
it can't access the read-only file. The Mac tells me I have read and
write permissions for the workbook and I have read and write
permissions for the share on the server. If I repeat this process with
24689000 then *it* will be saved to another file and I loose access to
it too, although I continue to have read and write access to it.
This workbook is password protected, and I know that too. What is
going on? Does Excel for Mac have a file size limit as small as 10MB?
Or is this surprising "test drive" state causing problems?
thx,
r
More information;
I've just discovered that, on the server, there is what I will call a
lock file of the format "._<filename>.xls". Something like:
.._bigwork.xls
It has some weird binary data in it (so says notepad). There is no
file like this for the file I'm having trouble with and I'm betting
this is why. I've had a user on another laptop (Windows XP) try to
open it and they could not, they get an error about the file not being
found or having been moved. My question is, are there any
circumstances where user activity might cause this dot file to be
deleted even though the actual workbook is present and/or open? Could
such a thing happen if there were multiple users? Perhaps someone
having the file open and then closing their laptop and going home for
the day
thx,
r
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