Excel saving as temporary file :-(

Soldato
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Hi guys, im having problems at work, basically i have a user with a spreadsheet which whenever she updates it and clicks save (9 times out of 10) it errors and said the save was interuppted etc and the file was saved as a temporary file. She is saving to a network share.

So the file is now gone and a file with a random name like D029272 with no extension appears, but once you rename it and put xls at the end it works fine with the updates saved.

As i understand with Excel and saving documents it makes a copy (the above file), checks the new copy, renames the temp one, and then deletes the old one. So its getting interuppted mid-way.

Its Office/Excel 97 which i have reinstalled with no luck. It seems to be only this spreadsheet at the moment but i still cant figure it out, does anyone have any ideas? Apparently many people have looked at this in the past and no-one has figured it out.

Cheers.
 
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