Creation of .XLS0 files

[Steve VanBrocklin]

I am experiencing a problem where in it appears that Excel
is creating a copy of an open file and giving it an XLS0
extention. If I delete this file, I can no longer open the
original file. It is as if they are linked together in
some sort of siamese-twin fashion. Has anybody seen this
happen before and if so, what can be done about it.

 

[Dave Peterson]

I've never seen this behavior.

Any chance that you have a helpful macro that's trying to back things up for
you?

Any chance that your antivirus uses that kind of extension for keeping track of
things?

Before you start, what's the approximate size of the .xls file?

When you get the .xls and .xls0, what's the size of each?

I searched the newsgroups and there were a couple of hits (none helpful).

But I searched the web via google and found one hit that used a Perl script and
used .xls0, .xls1, and .xls2 as temporary filenames within the script.

Maybe you have a macro that uses those names?????