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Excel 2013 - Problem saving .XLS files to network drive

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Ok, I have a very strange issue.  I have a machine running Win7 Ultimate that I have setup using DeepFreeze which freezes the C: drive so that no changes can be made to it.  I have set the Documents folder to a mapped drive letter (I:\My Documents) and set the folder to be available offline.

Here is what I've discovered...

  1. If I have a .XLS file with data in it and open the file, make a change and save the file, once I reboot, the file is now 0 bytes and empty!
  2. If I open a .XLSX file and do a "Save As" and make the type .XLS, all is fine initially even after reboot.
  3. If I then make a change to the .XLS file from step 2, once I reboot, all the changes are gone!
  4. If I only work with .XLSX files, I have no issues at all.  I can open, make changes, save and all is fine.

Seeing as this is only an issue with .XLS files (not .XLSX), I don't believe there is any permission issue with the share, but I still made the user owner and granted all permissions to the share to this user anyway.

Also, I get no error messages at all on the save and it appears the file has been saved with no issue.

The machine is brand new and I have installed all Windows and Office updates available.

Does anyone have any idea of what's going on here?

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