Disk is Full Microsoft Excel

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Hi
I have had a problem recently when saving a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
from my client machine which is Windows 98 SE to a Windows Small
Business Server 2003 shared folder.

I read most of the Microsoft knowledge base articles and tried them
without success. I also read most of the Google groups too without
success.

So what worked for me is this.
The file was only 5Mb in size.
The Server had no disk quotas.
I saved the file to my local My documents folder and it worked ok.
But why?
I tried saving it again to the Shared Server folder and it did not
work.
I came across an article about Microsoft word having problems with
links in pages that don't work and may be corrupt.
So I deleted a worksheet which I copied from another workbook to the
problem excel file.
Then I saved it to the server again and it worked. However I did not
want to delete my work so I put it back again and saved again to server
with the same problem.
I decided to see what was in my copied worksheet that might be causing
problems.
It had a lot of #REF and #VALUE in many cells so I deleted all of them
and saved the file to the server and it worked.
So I figure that if you are having trouble saving Excel files to a
server and get Disk is Full error then see if you have lots of #REF or
#VALUE in your cells and delete them or consider that a worksheet in
your workbook may be corrupt.

This worked for me. Let me know if it helps someone.
Regards
Dominic

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Hi guess what the problem came back, so it does not have to do with
#REF or #VALUE.

Why does this happen Mr/Mrs MVP, MCE???

Considering that our server has more than 50Gb space left and the file
is only 5Mb in size. I have this environment.

Win98 SE client
Office XP 2002 with Service Pack 3 (I thought service packs were
supposed to help)
SBS 2003 with 50Gb space left.
Excel file is stored on server but when I save it I get a message
saying the disk is full. (Really which disk is that???)

I think my computer has a virtual hidden link to a Microsoft Error Log
Server (MELS) and the disk on the server has a list of all the errors
that occur when using Microsoft products. Every time I have been having
the "disk is full" pop up message occur when trying to save my 5Mb
excel file a hidden message is sent to a MELS and unfortunately the 1
million Terrabyte disk array has run out of space. So I think Microsoft
may need to intall another disk to accomodate the error calls going to
the MELS coming from my computer.

Regards
Dominic

Regards
Dominic