File not saved
Posted by John on December 15, 2000 2:46 AM
I have looked far and wide for the solution to this problem without success... Microsoft knowledge base was no use... Please help, even if only to point me in the right direction.
I have several Excel 97 users who often get the error message 'File not saved' or 'Disk is full' when trying to save/autosave files. It is then not possible to save a copy of the file in any location. This is definitely not a full disk problem as we have 10's of GBs available. This seems to be a very strange problem as other excel files can be open simutanously and they CAN be saved.
Many thanks
Posted by For~Bez on December 15, 2000 5:36 AM
I have seen this problem as well, and still have yet to find any fix for this. All I can suggest is to <ctrl+a> to 'select all' data on a sheet, and copy + paste it to a new excel file, and save that. I have even spent some time searching through 'tech net' with no success.
For~Bez
Posted by ereit on December 15, 2000 5:48 PM
I have had this problem many times with Excel 97 and have lost lots of data this way.
The only solution I have found is to make sure you shut your computer down daily and restart. It seems to prevent these types of errors. In addition, save your work often. If you get locked up like this, shut down & restart computer - it usually works, but you need your file saved.
Posted by Jennifer on December 19, 2000 11:05 AM
The only other thing I might think about is a virus. I seem to remember from my college computing support days that Word would do the same sort of thing (not save claiming a full disk) when there was a Word Macro virus involved.
I hope that isn't the case for you. and good luck!
