Every second time i open Excel, it displays the document recovery pane

[Paliente]

As the title says, every second time i open Excel 2003(opening Excel
itself, not an Excel document) the document recovery pane opens. I have
tried to open each of the doucments in the recovery pane then close them
but the same ones still come back the next time. Office is installed on
Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition and all the users use terminal server
to access Excel etc. The same problem occurs just opening Excel on the
server.

I also click on the show errors option and that tells me that 'no
errors were detected in (File Name) no repairs were necessary'.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Dave Peterson]

It sounds like there's a file in your autorecovery folder that isn't being
deleted.

Tools|Options|Save tab will give you the folder location for that file.

Close excel
Use windows explorer to traverse to that folder.

I'm guessing that you have a file with an extension of .XAR that's not being
deleted.

If excel closed normally (no crashes), then try deleting an .xar files you find
there. (If you're nervous, you could move them to another location--just in
case.)

Then restart excel to see what happens.

 

[Paliente]

It sounds like there's a file in your autorecovery folder that isn't
being
deleted.

Tools|Options|Save tab will give you the folder location for that
file.

Close excel
Use windows explorer to traverse to that folder.

I'm guessing that you have a file with an extension of .XAR that's not
being
deleted.

If excel closed normally (no crashes), then try deleting an .xar files
you find
there. (If you're nervous, you could move them to another
location--just in
case.)

Then restart excel to see what happens.

Dave Peterson

Thanks for replying but I tried all of what you suggested and it still
does the same as what it did before. There were no .XAR files to delete
when i opened the save folder though. I logged on as admin and there
were no .XAR files either. I rename the files which takes them off of
the document recovery pane but when i rename them back, they re-appear
on the recovery pane again.

Joel

 

[Dave Peterson]

I don't have another guess, but I'd look again for .xar files.

Close excel
windows start button|search
*.xar
(look through hidden folders, too)