Every second time i open Excel, it displays the document recovery pane

[Paliente]

As the title says, every second time i open Excel 2003(opening Excel itself, not an Excel document) the document recovery pane opens. I have tried to open each of the doucments in the recovery pane then close them but the same ones still come back the next time. Office is installed on Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition and all the users use terminal server to access Excel etc. The same problem occurs just opening Excel on the server.

I also click on the show errors option and that tells me that 'no errors were detected in (File Name) no repairs were necessary'.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[Dave Peterson]

It sounds like there's a file in your autorecovery folder that isn't being
deleted.

Tools|Options|Save tab will give you the folder location for that file.

Close excel
Use windows explorer to traverse to that folder.

I'm guessing that you have a file with an extension of .XAR that's not being
deleted.

If excel closed normally (no crashes), then try deleting an .xar files you find
there. (If you're nervous, you could move them to another location--just in
case.)

Then restart excel to see what happens.



Paliente wrote:
>
> As the title says, every second time i open Excel 2003(opening Excel
> itself, not an Excel document) the document recovery pane opens. I have
> tried to open each of the doucments in the recovery pane then close them
> but the same ones still come back the next time. Office is installed on
> Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition and all the users use terminal server
> to access Excel etc. The same problem occurs just opening Excel on the
> server.
>
> I also click on the show errors option and that tells me that 'no
> errors were detected in (File Name) no repairs were necessary'.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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[Paliente]

It sounds like there's a file in your autorecovery folder that isn't being
deleted.

Tools|Options|Save tab will give you the folder location for that file.

Close excel
Use windows explorer to traverse to that folder.

I'm guessing that you have a file with an extension of .XAR that's not being
deleted.

If excel closed normally (no crashes), then try deleting an .xar files you find
there. (If you're nervous, you could move them to another location--just in
case.)

Then restart excel to see what happens.

Dave Peterson

Thanks for replying but I tried all of what you suggested and it still does the same as what it did before. There were no .XAR files to delete when i opened the save folder though. I logged on as admin and there were no .XAR files either. I rename the files which takes them off of the document recovery pane but when i rename them back, they re-appear on the recovery pane again.

Joel

[Dave Peterson]

I don't have another guess, but I'd look again for .xar files.

Close excel
windows start button|search
*.xar
(look through hidden folders, too)

Paliente wrote:
>
> Dave Peterson Wrote:
> > It sounds like there's a file in your autorecovery folder that isn't
> > being
> > deleted.
> >
> > Tools|Options|Save tab will give you the folder location for that
> > file.
> >
> > Close excel
> > Use windows explorer to traverse to that folder.
> >
> > I'm guessing that you have a file with an extension of .XAR that's not
> > being
> > deleted.
> >
> > If excel closed normally (no crashes), then try deleting an .xar files
> > you find
> > there. (If you're nervous, you could move them to another
> > location--just in
> > case.)
> >
> > Then restart excel to see what happens.
> >
> > Dave Peterson
>
> Thanks for replying but I tried all of what you suggested and it still
> does the same as what it did before. There were no .XAR files to delete
> when i opened the save folder though. I logged on as admin and there
> were no .XAR files either. I rename the files which takes them off of
> the document recovery pane but when i rename them back, they re-appear
> on the recovery pane again.
>
> Joel
>
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> Paliente
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