Weird files

[Anne Troy]

Not sure. Perhaps cleaning up your hard drive will help.
http://www.officearticles.com/misc/how_to_clean_up_your_hard_drive.htm

Are they Excel files?

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[Steve]

Just noticed I've got a ton of weird files with names like 2BE48300.
The normal files seem to be ok. Any idea what might be producing all
these extra files?


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[Dave Peterson]

When excel saves the file, it saves it as a temporary file with a funny name (8
characters--no extension) in the same folder.

If the save is successful, xl will delete the original (or rename it to its
backup name (like "backup of book1.xlk)) and if that's successful, xl will
rename the funny named file to the original's name.

If you're seeing that funny named file, then something is going wrong.

Common things that get blamed for interruptions to this process are antivirus
software poking its head in or network errors--either permissions or physical
problems.

 

[Dave Peterson]

Try disabling Avast (temporarily) and see if the problem goes away.

If it does, check Avast for updates??????

 

[Steve]

When excel saves the file, it saves it as a temporary file with a funny name (8
characters--no extension) in the same folder.
If the save is successful, xl will delete the original (or rename it to its
backup name (like "backup of book1.xlk)) and if that's successful, xl will
rename the funny named file to the original's name.
If you're seeing that funny named file, then something is going wrong.
Common things that get blamed for interruptions to this process are antivirus
software poking its head in or network errors--either permissions or physical
problems.

Thanks Dave. Been using Avast antivirus for years with no problems,
and I'm not on a network, not sure what else it could be....


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[Anne Troy]

Nice, Dave.
Another lesson for me.
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