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Cannot save changes
I am trying to work with some spreadsheets located in another PC of our local
network, which has Windows 98. I´ve got Windows XP Professional. In fact, the files are located in a folder which has no restrictions to me. Since I installed some critical updates I have been unable to modify any of these spreadsheets as Excel tells me it is imposible to save the changes, and also to work with the temporal file it has created and save it with other name than the original. As I said, I have total control over the files in that folder so I can create and delete files, read them but not modify them now. I have tried reinstalling Excel 97, upgrading it with Office 97 Service Pack 2b, upgrading it to Excel 2000... but no way to solve this problem. On the other hand, we have not made any changes to this folder´s access rights. Any suggestions on why this is happening? Best regards and happy new year to all, Alfonso |
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This is sometimes a virus checker issue. Excel saves the file with a
temporary name and then tries to rename it to the real name. But if a virus checker has the file open Excel is prevented from renaming. -- Jim Rech Excel MVP "Alfonso" wrote in message ... |I am trying to work with some spreadsheets located in another PC of our local | network, which has Windows 98. I´ve got Windows XP Professional. In fact, the | files are located in a folder which has no restrictions to me. | | Since I installed some critical updates I have been unable to modify any of | these spreadsheets as Excel tells me it is imposible to save the changes, and | also to work with the temporal file it has created and save it with other | name than the original. As I said, I have total control over the files in | that folder so I can create and delete files, read them but not modify them | now. | | I have tried reinstalling Excel 97, upgrading it with Office 97 Service Pack | 2b, upgrading it to Excel 2000... but no way to solve this problem. On the | other hand, we have not made any changes to this folder´s access rights. | | Any suggestions on why this is happening? | Best regards and happy new year to all, | Alfonso |
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Ok, I´ll try uninstalling the antivirus software in both the server and the
client and I´ll tell you. I still think it may be an issue related with the user rights. If I run Ne****ch in the host machine to see who has accessed a file in it, it says the Guest user has opened the spreadsheet and not the user name the client machine has been given in the start of its session. Strange !! Any idea? Best regards, Alfonso "Jim Rech" wrote: This is sometimes a virus checker issue. Excel saves the file with a temporary name and then tries to rename it to the real name. But if a virus checker has the file open Excel is prevented from renaming. -- Jim Rech Excel MVP "Alfonso" wrote in message ... |I am trying to work with some spreadsheets located in another PC of our local | network, which has Windows 98. I´ve got Windows XP Professional. In fact, the | files are located in a folder which has no restrictions to me. | | Since I installed some critical updates I have been unable to modify any of | these spreadsheets as Excel tells me it is imposible to save the changes, and | also to work with the temporal file it has created and save it with other | name than the original. As I said, I have total control over the files in | that folder so I can create and delete files, read them but not modify them | now. | | I have tried reinstalling Excel 97, upgrading it with Office 97 Service Pack | 2b, upgrading it to Excel 2000... but no way to solve this problem. On the | other hand, we have not made any changes to this folder´s access rights. | | Any suggestions on why this is happening? | Best regards and happy new year to all, | Alfonso |
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I still think it may be an issue related with the user rights
While this is the classic virus checker scenario I suppose if delete or rename rights were missing it would look the same. -- Jim Rech Excel MVP "Alfonso" wrote in message ... | Ok, I´ll try uninstalling the antivirus software in both the server and the | client and I´ll tell you. | | I still think it may be an issue related with the user rights. If I run | Ne****ch in the host machine to see who has accessed a file in it, it says | the Guest user has opened the spreadsheet and not the user name the client | machine has been given in the start of its session. Strange !! | | Any idea? | Best regards, | Alfonso |
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That´s the point in this question. The problem is the machine that hosts the
files is using Windows 98 and there you can only set the rest of the computer to have read-only or complete access. In this case, the folder is configured so that anyone has complete access to the files inside. But whenever I check if the troublesome PC is accesing the files inside this folder, I can see it´s the guest user who is accesing the files instead of the user that started the seesionin that machine. Strange, isn´t it? Maybe i´ll try deactivating the guest user in that machine, as it had to be. Best regards, Alfonso "Jim Rech" escribió: I still think it may be an issue related with the user rights While this is the classic virus checker scenario I suppose if delete or rename rights were missing it would look the same. -- Jim Rech Excel MVP "Alfonso" wrote in message ... | Ok, I´ll try uninstalling the antivirus software in both the server and the | client and I´ll tell you. | | I still think it may be an issue related with the user rights. If I run | Ne****ch in the host machine to see who has accessed a file in it, it says | the Guest user has opened the spreadsheet and not the user name the client | machine has been given in the start of its session. Strange !! | | Any idea? | Best regards, | Alfonso |
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