R
rapsler
All my Excel spreadsheets are suddenly missing months of data. The
finder says most were last opened on various days last February (not on
the same date) and one last Sept, even though all these spreadsheets
are used regularly - one a few days ago. Even more wierd, I backup my
files on an external firewire hard drive that I don't leave connect to
the computer. My last backup was a few weeks ago, but the spreadsheets
on the backup show the same old dates as on my computer hard drive - I
used all the spreadsheets multiple times without incident since that
last backup. I have not discovered a problem with any other files,
such as MS Word documents. I am using an iMac G5 with OS X 10.4.6 and
running MS Office:Mac 2004 Student & Teacher Edition Ver 11.2.3. I am
not networked. One other twist, when in Excel, clicking on <File>
lists 9 previous times I opened Excel files. I clicked on the oldest
of one the problem spreadsheets and got an error message that "The file
may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only
location...." I've seen other posts with this error message, but the
symptoms were different. My problem occurred once before - last year -
with one spreadsheet where several weeks of data suddenly disappeared.
I mistakenly assumed that I accidently deleted seveal rows, even though
I couldn't imagine how I would have done that. Neither Apple's nor
Microsoft's tech support had any idea of what is going on and said they
never heard of this problem.
finder says most were last opened on various days last February (not on
the same date) and one last Sept, even though all these spreadsheets
are used regularly - one a few days ago. Even more wierd, I backup my
files on an external firewire hard drive that I don't leave connect to
the computer. My last backup was a few weeks ago, but the spreadsheets
on the backup show the same old dates as on my computer hard drive - I
used all the spreadsheets multiple times without incident since that
last backup. I have not discovered a problem with any other files,
such as MS Word documents. I am using an iMac G5 with OS X 10.4.6 and
running MS Office:Mac 2004 Student & Teacher Edition Ver 11.2.3. I am
not networked. One other twist, when in Excel, clicking on <File>
lists 9 previous times I opened Excel files. I clicked on the oldest
of one the problem spreadsheets and got an error message that "The file
may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only
location...." I've seen other posts with this error message, but the
symptoms were different. My problem occurred once before - last year -
with one spreadsheet where several weeks of data suddenly disappeared.
I mistakenly assumed that I accidently deleted seveal rows, even though
I couldn't imagine how I would have done that. Neither Apple's nor
Microsoft's tech support had any idea of what is going on and said they
never heard of this problem.