File Error: Data may have been lost

J

Jay

I received this message from a user today:
When I open a particular Excel spreadsheet I get the
following error: "File Error: Data may have been lost".
I have tried rebooting with NO luck. I asked another
person to open the file, he did NOT receive the error
message. I logged onto another PC and did NOT receive
the error.
So I went and visted the PC. Every thing I tried on that
system, including reinstalling office, has not worked.
But on another PC it open fine as any user.
Does any one have any ideas?
 
J

John Woodgate

I read in microsoft.public.excel.misc that Jay <[email protected]
crosoft.com> wrote (in said:
I received this message from a user today:
When I open a particular Excel spreadsheet I get the
following error: "File Error: Data may have been lost".
I have tried rebooting with NO luck. I asked another
person to open the file, he did NOT receive the error
message. I logged onto another PC and did NOT receive
the error.
So I went and visted the PC. Every thing I tried on that
system, including reinstalling office, has not worked.
But on another PC it open fine as any user.
Does any one have any ideas?
Click to expand...
I suppose you tried deleting the file and replacing it *in a different
folder*? You may have some sort of path error.
 
G

GD

We had this problem with opening some Excel files in Excel 2003.

The files were created in previous versions of Excel and contained
charts, drawings, text boxes etc. which were lost when the file
eventually opens (after clicking OK on the "File Error: Data may have
been lost" many many many times).

Anyway, we finally fixed the problem by downloading and installing the
Office 2003 Service Pack 1
found through...
http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate

All our files open in Excel 2003 now, without having had to recreate
them, or reinstall Office.
 
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