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MS Office Forum / Excel / Excel Errors / March 2007Cannot open a saved Excel file
I am unable to open three of my Excel worksheets. When I try to open them, I get the message: "Excel cannot access "filename". The document may be read-only or encrypted." The documents are not marked read-only and I have never encrypted any of my Excel documents. I cannot use the repair function because I cannot open the file. I have been working with and updating these files periodically for the past year or two. I have other Excel files that are fine. Please tell me there is a way to recover these files! It would be very difficult to re-create them. I'm Having the same problem have you found out anything yet ? > I am unable to open three of my Excel worksheets. When I try to open them, I > get the message: "Excel cannot access "filename". The document may be [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > are fine. Please tell me there is a way to recover these files! It would be > very difficult to re-create them. I too am having this problem but if I reboot my computer I can get into them again a time or 2 them it starts over again > I'm Having the same problem have you found out anything yet ? > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > are fine. Please tell me there is a way to recover these files! It would be > > very difficult to re-create them. I'm also having this issue. I can't open any files (excel, word). I have re-installed the software and this has not helped. It looks like this is a problem with no solution. If you've found something, can you share it? > I am unable to open three of my Excel worksheets. When I try to open them, I > get the message: "Excel cannot access "filename". The document may be [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > are fine. Please tell me there is a way to recover these files! It would be > very difficult to re-create them. Encounter this error today. The filename is change to numbers and without any extension. Anyone have any solution or the file is gone already? Unable to copy or move the file. > I'm also having this issue. I can't open any files (excel, word). I have > re-installed the software and this has not helped. It looks like this is a [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > are fine. Please tell me there is a way to recover these files! It would be > > very difficult to re-create them. Hi Ben, > Encounter this error today. The filename is change to numbers and without any > extension. Anyone have any solution or the file is gone already? Unable to > copy or move the file. The file with the numbers is your saved file. Rename that to a normal FileName.xls and your new file is back. When Excel saves, it first creates a file with a random number as its name. Then removes the existing file and finally renames the numbered file. Excel somehow was unable to rename that file during its saving process. One possible cause may be your virus software, which may have been scanning the file whilst Excel was trying to rename it. Regards, Jan Karel Pieterse Excel MVP http://www.jkp-ads.com Member of: Professional Office Developer Association www.proofficedev.com What if you don't have a file name with all numbers? I don't think there is a way to rename the file (that is unable to be opened)? So are you suggesting that the virus software be terminated while in Excel? > Hi Ben, > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > Professional Office Developer Association > www.proofficedev.com Hi Carol, > What if you don't have a file name with all numbers? What does it look like? > I don't think there is > a way to rename the file (that is unable to be opened)? So are you > suggesting that the virus software be terminated while in Excel? No, just relax its settings. Regards, Jan Karel Pieterse Excel MVP http://www.jkp-ads.com Member of: Professional Office Developer Association www.proofficedev.com I believe that I am having the same issue - it just started last week. I save files on a network server - I haven't encountered this issue (yet?) on my local HDD - and I am the only one in the office having this problem. It is affecting files I use every month as well as some files that I haven't touched in months. I thought my virus scanning software was the issue (I'm running McAfee v 11). I shut it off and thought I had rid myself of the problem but today I had the issue again. I have a number of files that are difficult to impossible to recreate so I am desperate to find an answer --- > Hi Carol, > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Professional Office Developer Association > www.proofficedev.com Hi Jp, > I thought my virus scanning software was the issue (I'm > running McAfee v 11). I shut it off and thought I had rid myself of the > problem but today I had the issue again. I have a number of files that are > difficult to impossible to recreate so I am desperate to find an answer --- The scanner wasn't switched back on without you knowing it? Regards, Jan Karel Pieterse Excel MVP http://www.jkp-ads.com Member of: Professional Office Developer Association www.proofficedev.com Hi Jan - McAfee is on my local machine, so I should have complete control over it, although software seems to be getting more insistent these days. I turned off the virus scanning and set it to come back on when the machine is restarted. This also disables the spyware and script scanning features but not "System Guard" which should only warn me if there are changes to programs being requested. I'm not 100% sure my issue is with McAfee - I just happened to start seeing this issue after the latest update. I'm not sure how it would be able to affect older files that I haven't touched in months and tried opening while the "new" McAfee was disabled. I really appreciate any thoughts you might have on this. Thanks > Hi Jp, > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Professional Office Developer Association > www.proofficedev.com Hi Jp, > I'm not 100% sure my issue is with McAfee - I just happened > to start seeing this issue after the latest update. I'm not sure how it > would be able to affect older files that I haven't touched in months and > tried opening while the "new" McAfee was disabled. I really appreciate any > thoughts you might have on this. This might be a network problem as well. Try copying the offending files to a folder on your local drive, see if that fixes it. If it does, I'm afraid I cannot be of much help in fixing the network problem. But at least you'll know where to start looking. Regards, Jan Karel Pieterse Excel MVP http://www.jkp-ads.com Member of: Professional Office Developer Association www.proofficedev.com Hi Jan - Although I can't move/copy/attach to an email the offending files (I get a message that states "Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.") , I have copied the original files to my local drive and have been able to use them there. It seems odd that I am the only one in the office having issues with the network but I will follow that lead. Thanks again for your assistance. > Hi Jp, > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Professional Office Developer Association > www.proofficedev.com Hi Jan: I thought I would share this in case someone else encounters it - Apparently it is an issue with our server (running Windows 2003)- there have been instances where all authorizations on a file or files have been removed. Our administrator went in and re-established the authorizations to access the files and that seems to do the trick -- > Hi Jp, > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Professional Office Developer Association > www.proofficedev.com Hi Jp, > I thought I would share this in case someone else encounters it - > Apparently it is an issue with our server (running Windows 2003)- there have > been instances where all authorizations on a file or files have been removed. > Our administrator went in and re-established the authorizations to access > the files and that seems to do the trick -- Thanks for letting us know! Regards, Jan Karel Pieterse Excel MVP http://www.jkp-ads.com Member of: Professional Office Developer Association www.proofficedev.com |
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