Read-Only won't go away.

[Ryker]

I've been working at this issue for some time now and all the advice I have tried has failed.

Familiar problem:

I attempt to open a excel file from my A: drive and of course it says, "The file may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location."

The other files, non-excel, on the disk open just fine.

So I checked the file properties and the "read-only" box is unchecked. I messed around with this for 30 minutes and nothing changed. Rebooted several times. Cleaned win temp and anything to do with excel.

I was told to copy and paste the file onto my destop through Win Explorer. No change.

Tried renaming it. No change.

I attempted to open the file on my friend's computer and same issue.

Any advice? The file is on a 3 1/2 floppy.

[Carole Drake]

So, did you actually try to type something into it? It just says 'may be'.
I had one that said that and the instructions were to 'save as' on the hard
drive and work with the new one.
Carole


"Ryker" wrote:

>
> I've been working at this issue for some time now and all the advice I
> have tried has failed.
>
> Familiar problem:
>
> I attempt to open a excel file from my A: drive and of course it says,
> "The file may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only
> location."
>
> The other files, non-excel, on the disk open just fine.
>
> So I checked the file properties and the "read-only" box is unchecked.
> I messed around with this for 30 minutes and nothing changed. Rebooted
> several times. Cleaned win temp and anything to do with excel.
>
> I was told to copy and paste the file onto my destop through Win
> Explorer. No change.
>
> Tried renaming it. No change.
>
> I attempted to open the file on my friend's computer and same issue.
>
> Any advice? The file is on a 3 1/2 floppy.
>
>
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[Ryker]

No, this isn't from excel itself. I can not open the file at all. It saved fine the last time it was accessed but I haven't been able to view it since. So this isn't a matter of saving but opening.