xlsx files turn into folders when saved onto desktop folder

[wayneker]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I was working on my wedding invitation list on Excel 2008 and saves as a xlsx file. When I move that file onto desktop, the file turns into a folder and all my data are lost!!

there are some xml files in the folder but I can't recover my data! All my invitee information are lost!

What can I do?
This happens with every xlsx files saved onto my desktop!

 

[CyberTaz]

The problem isn't Excel but is caused by two other issues:

#1 - Saving to the Desktop is never a good idea in the first place. That's
why the OS has been designed to make it easy to create FOLDERS to save your
files in. Doing so will help prevent this type of issue, which is...

#2 - You have StuffIt Expander's preferences set to (a) automatically expand
items saved to the Desktop & (b) delete the original after expanding. I'm
afraid [due to (b)] I don't know of any way to recover the data unless you
have made backups or are using Time Machine.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I was working on my wedding invitation list on Excel 2008 and saves as a xlsx
file. When I move that file onto desktop, the file turns into a folder and
all my data are lost!!

there are some xml files in the folder but I can't recover my data! All my
invitee information are lost!

What can I do?
This happens with every xlsx files saved onto my desktop!

OXML files comprise a number of files which are compressed/zipped. Do
you have any utilities monitoring the Desktop that automatically unzip
the files saved there?

 

[wayneker]

I don't have any utilities monitoring the Desktop. So there is nothing else I can do?

 

[CyberTaz]

I don't mean to be contradictory, but I find it incomprehensible that any
Mac in today's world isn't equipped with some file expansion utility.

That said, I further admit that I don't presume to know any system better
than does its owner/operator. On that basis I can only suggest that you must
therefore have a *serious* & previously unreported problem with OS X which
is somehow dismantling your OXML files in the manner previously described.

There is absolutely nothing about anything in the Office Suite that would -
or could - cause the behavior you depicted. The programs aren't even
involved in any copying or moving of files done in Finder.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[bful]

Thanks, Bob. You were exactly right. My prefs in Stuffit were faruckt.
Problem solved. Happy camper.
bful