Help! Damaged Workbook!

[Guest]

Hello!
I'm in trouble! Today I had an excelent day. I was thinking "what a
productive day I had at the office".
I was saving my work on a hard drive on another computer on my network. All
of a sudden, in the middle of the saving process, my network crashed.
Afterwards, I tried to open the workbook and I get a message saying "you
don't have acces to the workbook, the workbook might be read only, or the
server is not responding". I have already tried the "open and repair" command
from the Workbook/Open dialog box.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
Best regards,
Albert C

 

[Gord Dibben]

Excel stores in Windows\Temp(win98) folder a copy(s) of any file that is open.

Sometimes this *.tmp file is not deleted from the Temp folder when you close
out Excel(maybe a crash of Excel?) or the file, so Excel thinks it is still
open and in use.

You can try a re-boot and see if that clears it up. If not, after a re-boot,
clear out your Windows\Temp folder.

If using WinXP your Temp folder would be under user.......

Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Temp

If on a network, re-booting the server may be the only solution.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

Hello!
I'm in trouble! Today I had an excelent day. I was thinking "what a
productive day I had at the office".
I was saving my work on a hard drive on another computer on my network. All
of a sudden, in the middle of the saving process, my network crashed.
Afterwards, I tried to open the workbook and I get a message saying "you
don't have acces to the workbook, the workbook might be read only, or the
server is not responding". I have already tried the "open and repair" command
from the Workbook/Open dialog box.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
Best regards,
Albert C

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Guest]

Thanks!
Should I just delete everything inside that directory?
Regards,
Albert

 

[Gord Dibben]

A re-boot should take care of that but you can delete whatever Windows will
allow you to.

You may get a "cannot delete, file in use" but the Excel-created ones should be
OK to delete.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your ultra fast response.
I appreciate your efforts.
Didn't work however...
Albert

 

[Alan]

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