Invalid Read-Only message

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Marie

I am using Excel 2000 and when opening my document either
from the shortcut or directly from Excel I receive the
following informational message:
[name of my file.xls]cannot be accessed. The file may be
read-only, or you may be trying to access a read only
location. Or, the server the document is stored on may
not be responding.

I access this document nearly every day. Even though it
was not saved as Read-Only or password protected I tried
to open it as Read-Only and it will not.

Please help.
Thanks, Marie
 
I use excel 97 and on an extremely important file I just
received the very same message. If you get a solution to
your problem please forward on to me as well. thank you
 
I am having the problem too. Some of my important excel
file cannot be open due to the error message. If there is
a solution on this, please forward me an email too.
-----Original Message-----
I use excel 97 and on an extremely important file I just
received the very same message. If you get a solution to
your problem please forward on to me as well. thank you
-----Original Message-----
I am using Excel 2000 and when opening my document either
from the shortcut or directly from Excel I receive the
following informational message:
[name of my file.xls]cannot be accessed. The file may be
read-only, or you may be trying to access a read only
location. Or, the server the document is stored on may
not be responding.

I access this document nearly every day. Even though it
was not saved as Read-Only or password protected I tried
to open it as Read-Only and it will not.

Please help.
Thanks, Marie
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Hi,

Sometimes this happens after a crash of Excel. Rebooting
may clear the problem.

This also frequently happens to files that were opened
from a floppy. Office is teriibly unreliable when it comes
to working from floppy disks. Allways avoid that: first
move or copy to HD, then edit, save&close(!) the office
application, then move or copy back to floppy.

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel TA/MVP
 
My document is already on my HD...I never had it on a
floppy. I also don't recall having excel crash on me
recently. Due to your reply I thought I would attempt to
copy my file from the HD onto a floppy and open it just to
see what it would do. I still receive the same
informational message. I then moved it back to my HD and
still received the message. Can you think of anything
else I can try. I really need this file and it looks like
others are having the same problem.

Thank you for your time,
Marie
-----Original Message-----
Hi,

Sometimes this happens after a crash of Excel. Rebooting
may clear the problem.

This also frequently happens to files that were opened
from a floppy. Office is teriibly unreliable when it comes
to working from floppy disks. Allways avoid that: first
move or copy to HD, then edit, save&close(!) the office
application, then move or copy back to floppy.

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel TA/MVP
-----Original Message-----
I am using Excel 2000 and when opening my document either
from the shortcut or directly from Excel I receive the
following informational message:
[name of my file.xls]cannot be accessed. The file may be
read-only, or you may be trying to access a read only
location. Or, the server the document is stored on may
not be responding.

I access this document nearly every day. Even though it
was not saved as Read-Only or password protected I tried
to open it as Read-Only and it will not.

Please help.
Thanks, Marie
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Hi,

Try (temporarily) disabling your antivirus software. If
that hepls, You'll have to tweak that software's settings.

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel TA/MVP
-----Original Message-----
My document is already on my HD...I never had it on a
floppy. I also don't recall having excel crash on me
recently. Due to your reply I thought I would attempt to
copy my file from the HD onto a floppy and open it just to
see what it would do. I still receive the same
informational message. I then moved it back to my HD and
still received the message. Can you think of anything
else I can try. I really need this file and it looks like
others are having the same problem.

Thank you for your time,
Marie
-----Original Message-----
Hi,

Sometimes this happens after a crash of Excel. Rebooting
may clear the problem.

This also frequently happens to files that were opened
from a floppy. Office is teriibly unreliable when it comes
to working from floppy disks. Allways avoid that: first
move or copy to HD, then edit, save&close(!) the office
application, then move or copy back to floppy.

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel TA/MVP
-----Original Message-----
I am using Excel 2000 and when opening my document either
from the shortcut or directly from Excel I receive the
following informational message:
[name of my file.xls]cannot be accessed. The file may be
read-only, or you may be trying to access a read only
location. Or, the server the document is stored on may
not be responding.

I access this document nearly every day. Even though it
was not saved as Read-Only or password protected I tried
to open it as Read-Only and it will not.

Please help.
Thanks, Marie
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Hi,

See if this article applies:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;265103

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel TA/MVP
-----Original Message-----
My document is already on my HD...I never had it on a
floppy. I also don't recall having excel crash on me
recently. Due to your reply I thought I would attempt to
copy my file from the HD onto a floppy and open it just to
see what it would do. I still receive the same
informational message. I then moved it back to my HD and
still received the message. Can you think of anything
else I can try. I really need this file and it looks like
others are having the same problem.

Thank you for your time,
Marie
-----Original Message-----
Hi,

Sometimes this happens after a crash of Excel. Rebooting
may clear the problem.

This also frequently happens to files that were opened
from a floppy. Office is teriibly unreliable when it comes
to working from floppy disks. Allways avoid that: first
move or copy to HD, then edit, save&close(!) the office
application, then move or copy back to floppy.

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel TA/MVP
-----Original Message-----
I am using Excel 2000 and when opening my document either
from the shortcut or directly from Excel I receive the
following informational message:
[name of my file.xls]cannot be accessed. The file may be
read-only, or you may be trying to access a read only
location. Or, the server the document is stored on may
not be responding.

I access this document nearly every day. Even though it
was not saved as Read-Only or password protected I tried
to open it as Read-Only and it will not.

Please help.
Thanks, Marie
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Thank you for the update, but unfortunately it did not
work. I disabled Norton Antivirus and tried to access the
document and it still failed. The article you mentioned
was not my scenario....I had checked on that earlier.

Did any of this work for the others with the same problem?

Any ideas where I can go from here? This file is very
important to me.

Thank you....Marie
-----Original Message-----
Hi,

See if this article applies:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;265103

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel TA/MVP
-----Original Message-----
My document is already on my HD...I never had it on a
floppy. I also don't recall having excel crash on me
recently. Due to your reply I thought I would attempt to
copy my file from the HD onto a floppy and open it just to
see what it would do. I still receive the same
informational message. I then moved it back to my HD and
still received the message. Can you think of anything
else I can try. I really need this file and it looks like
others are having the same problem.

Thank you for your time,
Marie
-----Original Message-----
Hi,

Sometimes this happens after a crash of Excel. Rebooting
may clear the problem.

This also frequently happens to files that were opened
from a floppy. Office is teriibly unreliable when it comes
to working from floppy disks. Allways avoid that: first
move or copy to HD, then edit, save&close(!) the office
application, then move or copy back to floppy.

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel TA/MVP

-----Original Message-----
I am using Excel 2000 and when opening my document either
from the shortcut or directly from Excel I receive the
following informational message:
[name of my file.xls]cannot be accessed. The file may be
read-only, or you may be trying to access a read only
location. Or, the server the document is stored on may
not be responding.

I access this document nearly every day. Even though it
was not saved as Read-Only or password protected I tried
to open it as Read-Only and it will not.

Please help.
Thanks, Marie
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