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I try to open a file I've been using everyday for 3 months and suddenly I get
a message that states "'File.xls' cannot be accessed. The file may be
read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the
server the document is stored on may not be responding." Now the file is not
read only since I can look at the properties and the memory stick that the
file is on is responding because all of the other files on it are able to be
opened without a problem. I also can open the file in WordPad but it opens
with some text but mostly odd characters. Any suggestions on recovering the
data and opening the file?

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I try to open a file I've been using everyday for 3 months and suddenly I
get
a message that states "'File.xls' cannot be accessed. The file may be
read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the
server the document is stored on may not be responding." Now the file is
not
read only since I can look at the properties and the memory stick that the
file is on is responding because all of the other files on it are able to
be
opened without a problem. I also can open the file in WordPad but it
opens
with some text but mostly odd characters. Any suggestions on recovering
the
data and opening the file?


Safer not to use a memory stick, but to copy the file to hard disk.
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David Biddulph


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Thanks, but that doesn't help me since the file is on a memory stick. I have
copied to the hard drive but it still doesn't open in excel.

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