I have a user that has snow leopard and MAC office 2008. The problem is that every time the user tries to move any excel file he created over to any network share, he gets the following error message:
The Finder cant complete the operation because some data in PONumbers.xlsx cant be read or written.
(Error code -36)
And also, every time he tries to save an excel document on any network share, he gets the following error message:
"Microsoft excel cannot access hte file "\\path\***.xls"
There are several possible reasons:
The file name or path name does not exist.
The File your're trying to open is being used by another program. Close hte document in hte other program and try again.
The name of hte workbook you're trying to save is the same as the name of another document that is read-only. Try savign hte workbook with a different name."
I've made sure that all of the above is not true, so I don't know what's going on.
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Yes, he can open other excel files. He just can't save to any file share, anywhere on the network, and he can't also move any xls files anywhere on the network as welll. I've checked the permissions, and he has modify access, almost full access. Plus, he can save other files there, so that's why I know it's not a permissions issue.
he connects via SMB.
We have a windows network, with Dell switches, mostly managed.
There's only a few macs on the network.
Here's the path with the file name:
\\eden\Officefiles\Publish
We've already tried to remove the empty spaces from the 00 - PO files folder, but that didn't help.
This is Snow Leopard right? I may have some bad news for you. If you upgraded to Snow Leopard, I suggest you downgrade back to Leopard 10.5.x
I do not think that Snow Leopard 10.6 is ready. I have been reading about some strange occurrences with networking with Windows environments.
If you have a 10.5 machine and it works, then 10.6 is the issue. I don't think you will see a resolution till at least 10.6.1 or 10.6.2
I'm getting the same problem when just copying random files/folders to an EncFS (MacFuse) folder.
Only on Snow leopard.
Downgrading back to Leopard is not an option.
Is there any workaround?
Is Apple aware of this issue?
I can't find much info anywhere, except that it doesn't work (which is pretty much the 'solution' given here)
I would seriously report this issue to Apples's Bug site. http://developer.apple.com
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by: apache09Posted on 2009-09-28 at 18:57:32ID: 25445394
Can he open other documents from the Network Share?