File won't open, says "read only" but it's NOT... URGENT HELP NEEDED!

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I need help desperately... I created a workbook in Excel 2000. Save it, and uploaded it via FTP to my server. Downloaded it and opened it in Excel 97, used it with NO PROBLEMS, saved it, and then uploaded it back via FTP. I'm not trying to open it with Excel 2000, and it's giving me an error, something about it possibly being "read only", which I know that it's not, and I even set it on the server I downloaded from so that it's NOT read only

Please help, this is URGENT for my work. I created the file at work, worked on it at home, and now am at work again trying to keep going... this isn't that huge a file, but the information that's been collected and stored in it took me weeks to get!! :(
 
To get going immediately, copy the contents and paste to a new workbook.
Copy the file to another location, preferably your desktop. Is it still read-only?
 
Lara said:
I need help desperately... I created a workbook in Excel 2000. Save
it, and uploaded it via FTP to my server. Downloaded it and opened
it in Excel 97, used it with NO PROBLEMS, saved it, and then uploaded
it back via FTP. I'm not trying to open it with Excel 2000, and it's
giving me an error, something about it possibly being "read only",
which I know that it's not, and I even set it on the server I
downloaded from so that it's NOT read only.

Please help, this is URGENT for my work. I created the file at work,
worked on it at home, and now am at work again trying to keep
going... this isn't that huge a file, but the information that's been
collected and stored in it took me weeks to get!! :(
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I hope that the file still exists on the Excel 97 computer. FTP is
highly prone to corrupting files from my experience with jpg photo files
to/from my Comcast server. This can happen if the FTP application has
been set to transfer by ASCII, the host FTP server has reached a
filespace limit, and serendipity. This is why commercial FTP of Linux
distributions also distribute the MD5 checksum so that file integrity
can be verified on receipt.

At one time there was a known problem with Excel 97 and FTP corruption
in one of the MS server products.

BTW, if it truly were Read Only, it would still open.

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