Some Excel (.xls) files won't open
Hi,
I have Microsoft 2004 for Mac.
I found much to my dismay that two important Excel files on my computer won't open. When I double click on them, the normal loading window shows very briefly (the window says: Opening XXX.xls; Press Command + to Cancel), and then nothing happens - the file is not open. Double clicking it again produces the same results. I tried to open the files from the File-Open menu. It did not work.
All the other Excel files on my computer open normally (well I did not check every one of them; but for those which I did check anyway). The two problematic files are in the same folder.
The latest updates for Microsoft 2004 have been installed.
There is no special setting for the two files in question (like permission settings).
I tried to move the files to a different location of my computer and opened them from there - did not work.
There is nothing wrong with the file naming.
And when I sent the problematic files to my own gmail and tried to open the files from gmail (click view on the attachment file), I was able to open the files successfully from there.
Any ideas as to what is happening, and how to fix the problem?
Thank you very much!
Ok, I figured it out. Contrary to what I stated in the post, the software is not up to date. So I proceeded to update the software and the problem went away. The problematic files now can be opened.
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Is it something to do with Leap Year 29th Feb? Checked the clock in preferences but can't see how this affects it.
Firefox is always updated but the latest version does not seem to be as efficient as previous upgrades. We installed Chrome as well. Do they interfere with each other?Hi Ken
I wish the 7.1 updater download had helped but it didn¹t. All the files
were backed up before the installation, which went fine.
Mac 10.5.8
We used Disc Warrior to defrag the hard drive, which did not make a
difference.
We recently started using Chrome, so now have 3 browsers in the dock,
Safari, Firefox and Chrome. Do they interfere in any way with each other?
The files, which I hadn¹t touched for a month as I update on a monthly
basis, initially had the Firefox icon.
Below is the message to send to Apple, which did not go through their report
system! A little disillusioned with the service!
Model: iMac9,1, BootROM IM91.008D.B08, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 3.06
GHz, 4 GB
Graphics: kHW_NVidiaGeForceGT130Item, NVIDIA GeForce GT 130,
spdisplays_pcie_device, 512 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x8E),
Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.91.22)
Bluetooth: Version 2.1.9f10, 2 service, 0 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD1001FALS-40K1B0, 931.51 GB
Serial ATA Device: PIONEER DVD-RW DVRTS08
USB Device: Built-in iSight, (null) mA
USB Device: Keyboard Hub, (null) mA
USB Device: iLok, (null) mA
USB Device: Apple Optical USB Mouse, (null) mA
USB Device: Apple Keyboard, (null) mA
USB Device: Deskjet 3840, (null) mA
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, (null) mA
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, (null) mA
USB Device: IR Receiver, (null) mA
FireWire Device: d2 quadra (button), LaCie, 800mbit_speed
Does not mean a thing to me.
I am not late with updating the site, which is about New Zealand culture,
month by month (www.englishteacher.co.nz). Probably only the third time I
have been late since 2005. Not a huge amount of traffic, ~300 a month and
free access to content but I would like to solve this problem.
Could a reciprocal link have caused a problem?
At my wits end.
I really appreciate the help though.
Cheers Yvonne
From: Ken Binney <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:42:11 -0700
To: Yvonne and Bill Hynson <[email protected]>
Subject: HELP! Files won't open and previously had Firefox
icon instead of DW icons! Leap Year thing?
Re: HELP! Files won't open and previously had Firefox icon instead of DW
icons! Leap Year thing?
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Not necessarily related, but did you also install the 7.1
updater? http://www.adobe.com/support/dreamweaver/downloads_updaters.html
Windows or MAC?
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FCP 5.1 file won't open in FCP 7
Hi.
I am at my wits end...I have a FCP 5.1 file that I have been working on for years.
I had to upgrade to FCP 7 for reasons I won't go into and now my FCP 5.1 file won't open.
It is a file with footage from P2 cards. It has magic bullet/looks builder used throughout. I am not sure if that is the issue at one point ONE of the messages I got when it crashed (I got a few different ones at different times) was something about looksbuilder not working right.
In a nutshell, it slowly starts to open and then quits. (It gets to about 33 percent open over the course of 45 minutes and then crashes.)
The file is about half a gig and there is plenty of room on the MAC itself so it shouldn't be that the Mac is overtaxed.
I don't know what to do.
I tried opening various back-up copies, etc. because I thought maybe something was just corrupted. NONE of them open.
I tried deleting render files to limit how much it was trying to process when it opened the thing.
I even tried turning off the external drives that hold the media hoping that if it couldn't find the media it would just open the shell of a file for me and maybe I could reconnect it all later. Obviously, grasping at straws...
I am out of options. Do I just need to wipe my computer and reinstall 5.1 from scratch? That would stink because there is another project being worked on on the computer that is a FCP 7 file.
I tried putting a copy of FCP 5.1 back on the computer (so I have 7 and 5.1 on there now) to get it to open, but FCP 5.1 won't work either now (I get General Error 41 - whatever that means) Maybe you can't have two versions of FCP on the computer? Maybe it thinks it got opened in 7 so now it won't work in 5? even though it never fully opened? Guessing...
I'd appreciate any and all help. All I want to do is open the 5.1 file and save it in FCP 7 and work from there.
Thanks!
ShariHey Michael:
Thanks for the response. I did something similar in that I opened the file on another computer that had FCP 7 and it was fine. So I saved that. Then I went to my Mac and tried to open that file and it crashed...but it said something about Looksbuilder...so I contacted them and they had me uninstall, reinstall and then fix the preference files for Looksbuilder and it now opens.
YAY!
Thanks again,
Shari
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