Re: Unable to Read File

From: Jim Rech (jrrech_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/06/04 

Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:26:47 -0400

>>there's a bug in the password facility.

You may be onto something although I haven't had a problem with the file
password feature the little I've used it. There is something odd going on
though and the cryptic MSKB article adds to the mystery. I had not seen
that article before. Have you tried contacting MS? 

-- 
Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"Steve" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:26cdb01c4637a$15e1dc60$a601280a@phx.gbl...
| Jim,
|
| First, thanks for your reply.
|
| MS Knowledgebase article (Q213879) doesn't offer any
| help, other than to suggest I download some additional
| code (which I did) and then contact Microsoft.
|
| From reading the article, it sounds like this is a known
| problem and not specific to my computer or my usage
| patterns.
|
| I backup regularly, but don't believe this is a backup
| issue. The file I created Sunday was unreadable Monday.
| The file I created May 31, is now unreadable. However,
| the files I created in April, March, February and January
| are all readable. Strange. Further, when I recreated my
| work yesterday  (a sizable task) I saved the file without
| using a password and can read it fine today; but the file
| I created Sunday with a password is unreadable. My
| conclusion: there's a bug in the password facility.
|
| Steve
| >-----Original Message-----
| >If the suggestions in the MS Knowledgebase articles on
| corrupted files have
| >not helped you, you might have to look into data
| recovery tools such as at
| >http://www.conceptdata.com/excel/.
| >
| >You seem to have a pattern of getting corrupted files.
| You'll absolutely
| >need a system of backing up files in that case.  In fact
| everyone should
| >backup important files.  Also, if by any chance you are
| saving files to
| >floppy disks, you definitely want to stop that
| practice.  Floppy disks and
| >Excel do not get along.
| >
| >-- 
| >Jim Rech
| >Excel MVP
| >"Steve" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
| message
| >news:26b6d01c462d3$74ff0cb0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
| >| I've recently begun receiving error message "Unable to
| >| Read File" when trying to open a password protected
| file.
| >| I am able to open the Jan, Feb, Mar and Apr files
| without
| >| problem, but not the May file. Thinking it was a
| fluke, I
| >| spent a half-day yesterday creating a June file, but
| >| returned, tried to open yesterday's file, and got the
| >| same error message. I have now received the error
| message
| >| on two files (May and June), basically eliminating the
| >| possibliity of a random fluke. From reading the
| Microsoft
| >| Knowledge Base, it appears that this may be a known
| >| problem. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get
| >| around this problem? Thanks in advance.
| >
| >
| >.
| >

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