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Read-Only won't go away.
I've been working at this issue for some time now and all the advice I have tried has failed. Familiar problem: I attempt to open a excel file from my A: drive and of course it says, "The file may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location." The other files, non-excel, on the disk open just fine. So I checked the file properties and the "read-only" box is unchecked. I messed around with this for 30 minutes and nothing changed. Rebooted several times. Cleaned win temp and anything to do with excel. I was told to copy and paste the file onto my destop through Win Explorer. No change. Tried renaming it. No change. I attempted to open the file on my friend's computer and same issue. Any advice? The file is on a 3 1/2 floppy. -- Ryker ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ryker's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=29688 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=494069 |
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Read-Only won't go away.
So, did you actually try to type something into it? It just says 'may be'.
I had one that said that and the instructions were to 'save as' on the hard drive and work with the new one. Carole "Ryker" wrote: I've been working at this issue for some time now and all the advice I have tried has failed. Familiar problem: I attempt to open a excel file from my A: drive and of course it says, "The file may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location." The other files, non-excel, on the disk open just fine. So I checked the file properties and the "read-only" box is unchecked. I messed around with this for 30 minutes and nothing changed. Rebooted several times. Cleaned win temp and anything to do with excel. I was told to copy and paste the file onto my destop through Win Explorer. No change. Tried renaming it. No change. I attempted to open the file on my friend's computer and same issue. Any advice? The file is on a 3 1/2 floppy. -- Ryker ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ryker's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=29688 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=494069 |
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Read-Only won't go away.
No, this isn't from excel itself. I can not open the file at all. It saved fine the last time it was accessed but I haven't been able to view it since. So this isn't a matter of saving but opening. -- Ryker ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ryker's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=29688 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=494069 |
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