Re: Excel Files Are Getting Renamed
From: Treehouse (Treehouse_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/17/05
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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:11:06 -0800
Dave, I ran across something similar in my researching this earlier today, too.
We use Trend Micro's ServerProtect and this problem *is not* happening on
other servers and shares with Excel spreadsheets - which doesn't mean there
isn't a problem on these affected servers - but for my money makes antivirus
a less likely prospect.
We have no indications of any type of network problems - but I'll look at
that more closely tomorrow.
Thanks for the tips.
Bill
"Dave Peterson" wrote:
> When excel saves the file, it saves it as a temporary file with a funny name (8
> characters--no extension).
>
> If the save is successful, xl will delete the original (or rename it to its
> backup name (like "backup of book1.xlk)) and if that's successful, xl will
> rename the funny named file to the original's name.
>
> Common things that get blamed for interruptions to this process are antivirus
> software poking its head in or network errors--either permissions or physical
> problems.
>
> Maybe temporarily disabling the antivirus software would be the easier thing to
> test. If that doesn't help, maybe there was a permissions change???
>
>
> Treehouse wrote:
> >
> > I found out today about a problem that began, apparently, this Monday.
> >
> > A specific set of users have found that opening an excel spreadsheet file
> > and closing it - regardless of whether a change was made, file renamed, or
> > saved - results in the filename and suffix changing.
> >
> > Example: original filename "today.xls" and once it is opened and closed, it
> > is now named "De0328" with no .xls suffix. (note that "De0328" is an example
> > - the files are renamed into apparently random numbers and letters - eight
> > characters - without the .xls suffix)
> >
> > Adding a .xls to the filename allows Excel to reopen the file and all the
> > data is there.
> >
> > This behavior is repeatable from multiple workstations, all XP SP1 or SP2.
> >
> > The target data is on a shared drive on a Win2K server, and happens to be
> > part of our first DFS root implementation as well (files only replicated with
> > DFS, not yet accessed via DFS).
> >
> > An antivirus scan of both file server and DFS came up squeaky clean.
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance !
> >
> > No unusual error messages in either servers event logs.
> >
> > --
> > Bill Brower
> > MCSA, MCP
>
> --
>
> Dave Peterson
>
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