saving and remaming files

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Folks,
Have a small company with 5 pc's networked with Server 2000. Recently
users have complained that when they open excel files (that are stored on
the server and shared by all users) and make changes...they hit "save" (as
they always have) and it renames the file as (if the secretary has recalled
the error message correctly) as a temp file. This has obviously caused
problems with the other users. When they go to open the folder (after
changes have been made by another user) they do not see the changes. They
have combated the problem even further as they have started to rename the
temp file the same as what the original name should have been.
Is this a permission problem?

I hope that I have been clear and described the problem accurately.

Thanks in advance,
Kyle
 
When you save a file, excel will save it as a temporary file (8 characters, no
extension). Then if that save is successful, excel will delete the original and
rename this funny named file to the original's name.

You see the results when something interferes with this process.

A couple of things that get pointed at are antivirus software and network
problems (hardware or permissions).

Maybe you could disable the antivirus software (temporarily) to see if that
helped.

If it's not the antivirus software, did something on your network change
recently?

(if the problem went away by disabling the AV software, maybe a visit to its
site to see if there are any upgrades available???)
 
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