This started a few months ago. When 2003 opens the prompt ~arED8.xar can not be accessed, etc.
I have done research on line and off (my drive) with no success. Anyone know what the ~arED8.xar file is? I have been using Excel 20 years and have never seen this one.
Thanks
I did a quick Google search on ~arED8.xar Excel and got a few hits.
Aside from that, I have no idea what it is or does!
Biff
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Thanks anyway.
This link may help...
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...e=UTF-8#q=.xar
1 of those hits....
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
xar
Filename extension .xar
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) com.apple.xar-archive
Magic number xar!
Latest release
1.5.3
(9 December 2009; 6 years ago)
Type of format archive file format
Extended from XML, gzip
Website code.google.com/p/xar/
Xar (short for eXtensible ARchive format) is an open source file archiver and the archiver’s file format. It was created within the OpenDarwin project and is used in Mac OS X 10.5 for software installation routines, as well as browser extensions in Safari 5.0. Xar replaced the use of gzipped pax files.[1]
One development branch of RPM, RPM5, uses xar.[2]
Xar is different from cpio, tar or ar in that it stores the TOC (table of contents) in the beginning of the file, making appending to an archive more complicated, but making it unnecessary to scan through the archive to extract an individual contained file. Cramfs also has the equivalent of a TOC.
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Ford
I did some Google searching too!
I found this!
The XAR file extension is used by Microsoft Excel for the auto-saving feature that has been part of the software since the 2007 version. Auto-saving enables the user to recover a file after suffering a computer crash, power failure, and other unforeseen incident. http://whatis.techtarget.com/filefor...uto-save-files
This implies that the XAR bachup file was introduced with XL2007. I see you use both 2003 and 2010, so maybe the later version did a backup that XL2003 doesn't recognise.
I hope this helps, please let me know!
Regards,
David
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