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JurbyJim

Q: After saving an Excel document on my Mac ( I do have Office Mac), it will not reopen and gives error code -43. It will also say that there is no such file, although the file is in the document box. Has happened twice now with big files.

I work on Excel files through my Office Mac program. On two occasions, a large Excel file, (about 1.5 MB) will not save and is not recoverable. It gives me an error code -43.

 

I work on many such files without problem, but this has now happened on two occasions with important files.

IMac10,1, Mac OS X (10.1.x)

Posted on Jun 5, 2012 2:07 PM

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  • by BDAqua,

    BDAqua BDAqua Jun 5, 2012 4:22 PM in response to JurbyJim
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    Jun 5, 2012 4:22 PM in response to JurbyJim

    Hello,

     

      fnfErr                        = -43,  /*File not found*/

     

    Besides Disk Corruption, could you be putting an illegal character in the Name of the file? Like colon or Backslash?

  • by X423424X,Helpful

    X423424X X423424X Jun 5, 2012 8:21 PM in response to JurbyJim
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    Jun 5, 2012 8:21 PM in response to JurbyJim

    JurbyJim wrote:

     

    I work on Excel files through my Office Mac program. On two occasions, a large Excel file, (about 1.5 MB) will not save and is not recoverable. It gives me an error code -43.

     

    Can you "save as"?

  • by JurbyJim,

    JurbyJim JurbyJim Jun 5, 2012 8:27 PM in response to BDAqua
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    Jun 5, 2012 8:27 PM in response to BDAqua

    Thanks for you comments. The files in both cases had been saved many times, without changing the file name. I was able to recover a "copy" of the corrupted file, so many weeks work saved. Still not sure what has happened. As you suggested, the file shows as not found, even as I attempt to "save" it. It stays in my file folder but will not open. Am okay until the next time, but would sure love to know what happens.

  • by X423424X,

    X423424X X423424X Jun 5, 2012 8:43 PM in response to JurbyJim
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    Jun 5, 2012 8:43 PM in response to JurbyJim

    If it only happens with very large spread sheets, and only happens randomly, then one possibility is a buffer overflow, i.e., some piece of data is so large as to clobber the data that follows it.  If that is the case then the problem would only manifest itself if (a) you happen to access that data, (b) write beyond its allocation, and (c) what's just beyond that gets clobbered is something involved with the file's pathname.  Then when the pathname is needed it can't be found resulting in the -43.

     

    In other words, more "quality" programming from Microsoft...not.

     

    Just a theory.