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We resolved this problem in a most unexpected way. Recently we were inundated with virus' and had trouble accessing the microsoft website in order to do the necessary critical updates. We found out that our isp was blocking our ability to access microsoft without a proxy. When they opened our...

Yeah, we went and compared the Novell settings to the XP settings and everything seems fine. Interesting thing is, you can delete all you through Word. Open for a new file and delete. So for now, we are doing it this way.

Did the compact and repair, that did the trick. Should have thought of that myself. Thank you.

4.83 sp2 on some, 4.9 on others. This didn't make a difference though.

We have a shared access database whose tables and queries have disappeared. The strange thing is, we open up any one of the forms and the records are there. We also cannot create any new queries, as we get an error message stating the records have been deleted. Where'd they go? The database...

Just installed some XP Pro machines in a Novell environment. Odd thing is neither files or directories can be deleted. An error message comes up stating that the files is in use or the user has no privileges to delete the file. The files cannot be moved either. This is only on the XP...

Just installed some XP Pro machines in a Novell environment. Odd thing is neither files or directories can be deleted. An error message comes up stating that the files is in use or the user has no privileges to delete the file. The files cannot be moved either. This is only on the XP...

Well, this didn't work. We already had it set to the suggested fix. And the beat goes on. . .

No, the character path is not that long. I tried moving it to another directory (to the root) and the result is the same. I found out that these particular files were downloaded from the web and are the only ones with this problem.

Have a problem where certain new Excel files (I'm not sure which version of Excel these were created in)suddenly cannot be opened up from a Novell network. An error message comes up stating that the file is either read only, write protected or the drive is unavailable, all of which is not true...

Hi I'm one of the IT guys. This particular user recently had her PC changed, she went from Windows 98 to 2000. These particular files also don't open on any other 2000 or XP machines, but they open fine on all 98. I am trying to find a security setting somewhere that would cause this to...

Yes, to all. This problem is limited to only about a handful of files, all the others are fine. The ones that I cannot open, if I copy the file and rename it to Word, I can open it, change it, save it. Change it back to Excel and I can no longer open it.

Did the regedit thing - did not work.

The error message states that the file may be ready only, write protected or the server is not available, which is not the case for any of those. I already tried the repair to no avail. I will give your other suggestion a shot.

It does not work either way.