Saving your work to a second disk

[Vernie]

In Excel 2003 why can I not save my work on a second disk without getting a
cyclical redundancy error and probably losing everything I had on that disk?
It works OK with MsWord if I do the same thing i.e. put in the next disk and
go "save as" and I can exit and remove the disk without error messages.

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[RWN]

I'm not sure about Excel but NEVER save Word documents directly to any removable media.
Save to your HD and then copy it to the disk.
You may get away with it for awhile but one day you'll wind up with a corrupted disk.
Again, I'm not sure about Excel (I leaned my lesson with Word so never tried it).
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Rob
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In Excel 2003 why can I not save my work on a second disk without getting a
cyclical redundancy error and probably losing everything I had on that disk?
It works OK with MsWord if I do the same thing i.e. put in the next disk and
go "save as" and I can exit and remove the disk without error messages.

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[Nick Hodge]

Rob

Same would apply to Excel only probably double. Excel saves a temp file with
a random name until it determines the file is saved and then deletes the
original. This then means that a 1.44Mb floppy will only save about a 600Kb
file. Few sheets other than the most basic are within this limit.

My advice would be exactly yours. Copy it to your HD or network, do your
work and then finally save, then copy it to the floppy.

Anything else will be 'dicing with data death'

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Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
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[RWN]

Thanks for the confirmation.
As I got "Diced" (& sliced) with Word many moons ago I abandoned saving anything directly
to other than my HD.