"AutoRecover has been disabled for this session of Excel" modal window

[Geoff Lilley]

Hello everyone.

I have been getting the "AutoRecover has been disabled for this
session of Excel" error message more and more frequently. My specs:

1) MacBook Pro, 2 GB RAM, 2.16 Intel Core Duo
2) OS X 10.4.9, Excel 2004 (latest updates applied)

The file(s) that I work with are all stored locally.

My filepath to most of them is:
~/Documents/Reports/ and then one directory in, i.e., ~/Documents/
Reports/Flash Reports/

When I get the message that autorecover is disabled, it's ALWAYS a
modal, non-responsive window. I can click "OK" as many times as I
want, but it has no effect. Checking the box about not showing this
message again has no effect. The only way I can get rid of this
message is force quit XL.

Any ideas? TIA.

Cheers
Geoff

 

[CyberTaz]

This is an issue that occurred during the "infancy" of XL/Office X and also
reported during the early days of Office 2003 on the PC. Issue supposedly
corrected for both versions. Haven't seen it but once in 2004 in the
newsgroups, and the OP never responded back with results. What you describe
in your post doesn't really fit the profile, but maybe something in the file
system is causing it to be deceived. Perhaps one of the articles below will
give you some insights.

My "guess" would be that a healthy dose of Repair Permissions would be in
order along with a re-apply of Office 11.3.4 & OS X 10.4.9 (Intel), but if
you have Disk Warrior I wouldn't hesitate to run it first. If not, boot from
your OS X disk & run Disk Utility - Check Disk or Repair Disk from the
Utilities menu.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312265

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837258

Good Luck |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Geoff Lilley]

This is an issue that occurred during the "infancy" of XL/Office X and also
reported during the early days of Office 2003 on the PC. Issue supposedly
corrected for both versions. Haven't seen it but once in 2004 in the
newsgroups, and the OP never responded back with results. What you describe
in your post doesn't really fit the profile, but maybe something in the file
system is causing it to be deceived. Perhaps one of the articles below will
give you some insights.

My "guess" would be that a healthy dose of Repair Permissions would be in
order along with a re-apply of Office 11.3.4 & OS X 10.4.9 (Intel), but if
you have Disk Warrior I wouldn't hesitate to run it first. If not, boot from
your OS X disk & run Disk Utility - Check Disk or Repair Disk from the
Utilities menu.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312265

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837258

Good Luck |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

Thanks, Bob. I do run Repair Permissions religiously, thanks to the
kind suggestions of good folks like you, especially after running an
update.

One thing I did discover poking around this NG is that the recovered
files are not readily visible in the Finder. So I opened up a
terminal and did:

cd ~/Documents/'Microsoft User Data'

then I did:
ls

I saw all the recovered files (they all had the word "version" in the
title)

So I did:

rm *version*

That deleted about 12 files.

BTW, I did have some minor errors on my volume, which I used fsck to
repair. Good call.

Hopefully, your helpful suggestions will help me and anyone else in
this situation.

Thanks again.

Cheers
Geoff