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excel creates multiple temp files when saving
Excel is creating multiple temp files of my worksheet when I save. I stumbled
accross this several hours ago while looking thru my documents. In some instances the same worksheet was out there more than forty times. I checked online help but cannot find any fixes or documentation for this. |
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See if this still happens when you temporarily disable anti-virus. Excel
creates a temp file copy when saving and as a last change renames the file. If this gets interrupted for any reason, it leaves a temp file -- HTH Nick Hodge Microsoft MVP - Excel Southampton, England DTHIS web: www.nickhodge.co.uk web: www.excelusergroup.org "westbrom" wrote in message ... Excel is creating multiple temp files of my worksheet when I save. I stumbled accross this several hours ago while looking thru my documents. In some instances the same worksheet was out there more than forty times. I checked online help but cannot find any fixes or documentation for this. |
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Hi Guys
I seem to be suddenly having this same problem whilst using excel 2003. Have used it for ages with no problems but now when I go to save a file it creates a file with the same name but the following extention ..xls~RF124166a.temp I tried your suggestion of turning off my anti virus and it appears to stop this problem however is there any other way of fixing this condition as turning virus protection on and off is a real pain not to mention very secure. Any help appreciated. Thanks Maxine "Nick Hodge" wrote: See if this still happens when you temporarily disable anti-virus. Excel creates a temp file copy when saving and as a last change renames the file. If this gets interrupted for any reason, it leaves a temp file -- HTH Nick Hodge Microsoft MVP - Excel Southampton, England DTHIS web: www.nickhodge.co.uk web: www.excelusergroup.org "westbrom" wrote in message ... Excel is creating multiple temp files of my worksheet when I save. I stumbled accross this several hours ago while looking thru my documents. In some instances the same worksheet was out there more than forty times. I checked online help but cannot find any fixes or documentation for this. |
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Maxine
Personally I would think this is an issue for the AV vendor if Excel was working fine. It is likely an update has happened to the AV that is not working well with Excel. It is just interrupting the save process and presuming a virus -- HTH Nick Hodge Microsoft MVP - Excel Southampton, England DTHIS web: www.excelusergroup.org web: www.nickhodge.co.uk "Maxiemouse" wrote in message ... Hi Guys I seem to be suddenly having this same problem whilst using excel 2003. Have used it for ages with no problems but now when I go to save a file it creates a file with the same name but the following extention .xls~RF124166a.temp I tried your suggestion of turning off my anti virus and it appears to stop this problem however is there any other way of fixing this condition as turning virus protection on and off is a real pain not to mention very secure. Any help appreciated. Thanks Maxine "Nick Hodge" wrote: See if this still happens when you temporarily disable anti-virus. Excel creates a temp file copy when saving and as a last change renames the file. If this gets interrupted for any reason, it leaves a temp file -- HTH Nick Hodge Microsoft MVP - Excel Southampton, England DTHIS web: www.nickhodge.co.uk web: www.excelusergroup.org "westbrom" wrote in message ... Excel is creating multiple temp files of my worksheet when I save. I stumbled accross this several hours ago while looking thru my documents. In some instances the same worksheet was out there more than forty times. I checked online help but cannot find any fixes or documentation for this. |
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Thanks Nick,
I have sent them off an email as well so hopefully they may come up with something. Cheers "Nick Hodge" wrote: Maxine Personally I would think this is an issue for the AV vendor if Excel was working fine. It is likely an update has happened to the AV that is not working well with Excel. It is just interrupting the save process and presuming a virus -- HTH Nick Hodge Microsoft MVP - Excel Southampton, England DTHIS web: www.excelusergroup.org web: www.nickhodge.co.uk "Maxiemouse" wrote in message ... Hi Guys I seem to be suddenly having this same problem whilst using excel 2003. Have used it for ages with no problems but now when I go to save a file it creates a file with the same name but the following extention .xls~RF124166a.temp I tried your suggestion of turning off my anti virus and it appears to stop this problem however is there any other way of fixing this condition as turning virus protection on and off is a real pain not to mention very secure. Any help appreciated. Thanks Maxine "Nick Hodge" wrote: See if this still happens when you temporarily disable anti-virus. Excel creates a temp file copy when saving and as a last change renames the file. If this gets interrupted for any reason, it leaves a temp file -- HTH Nick Hodge Microsoft MVP - Excel Southampton, England DTHIS web: www.nickhodge.co.uk web: www.excelusergroup.org "westbrom" wrote in message ... Excel is creating multiple temp files of my worksheet when I save. I stumbled accross this several hours ago while looking thru my documents. In some instances the same worksheet was out there more than forty times. I checked online help but cannot find any fixes or documentation for this. |
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Well, disabling anti-virus worked for me. For the record: I have Micro Trend
installed and the file extension usually looked something like this: RF53222. This just happened recently and probably was due to an update for the anti-virus. However, the other good news: I discovered (after playing around with the anti-virus) that I am able to exclude certain files and folders in the advanced setup. So, right now My Documents folder is not being scanned and the problem has disappeared. It never occured to me that the anti-virus could be the cause. I'd like to thank Nick for solving this problem and everyone else for responding. Mike "Nick Hodge" wrote: See if this still happens when you temporarily disable anti-virus. Excel creates a temp file copy when saving and as a last change renames the file. If this gets interrupted for any reason, it leaves a temp file -- HTH Nick Hodge Microsoft MVP - Excel Southampton, England DTHIS web: www.nickhodge.co.uk web: www.excelusergroup.org "westbrom" wrote in message ... Excel is creating multiple temp files of my worksheet when I save. I stumbled accross this several hours ago while looking thru my documents. In some instances the same worksheet was out there more than forty times. I checked online help but cannot find any fixes or documentation for this. |
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On Saturday, March 1, 2008 8:12:00 AM UTC-6, westbrom wrote:
Well, disabling anti-virus worked for me. For the record: I have Micro Trend installed and the file extension usually looked something like this: RF53222. This just happened recently and probably was due to an update for the anti-virus. However, the other good news: I discovered (after playing around with the anti-virus) that I am able to exclude certain files and folders in the advanced setup. So, right now My Documents folder is not being scanned and the problem has disappeared. It never occured to me that the anti-virus could be the cause. I'd like to thank Nick for solving this problem and everyone else for responding. Mike "Nick Hodge" wrote: See if this still happens when you temporarily disable anti-virus. Excel creates a temp file copy when saving and as a last change renames the file. If this gets interrupted for any reason, it leaves a temp file -- HTH Nick Hodge Microsoft MVP - Excel Southampton, England DTHIS web: www.nickhodge.co.uk web: www.excelusergroup.org "westbrom" wrote in message ... Excel is creating multiple temp files of my worksheet when I save. I stumbled accross this several hours ago while looking thru my documents. In some instances the same worksheet was out there more than forty times. I checked online help but cannot find any fixes or documentation for this. I made the same thingo with trend micro, and the problem disapeared. Thanks for your help |
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Just a follow up question...
What are the names of these files? Are they all 8 characters long with no extension? If that's the case, then Nick's response could offer the solution. And if the user (you???) doesn't have the correct permissions, then that could be another cause. If the files don't look like that (8 characters, no extension), then these aren't the causes/solutions. westbrom wrote: Excel is creating multiple temp files of my worksheet when I save. I stumbled accross this several hours ago while looking thru my documents. In some instances the same worksheet was out there more than forty times. I checked online help but cannot find any fixes or documentation for this. -- Dave Peterson |
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