Hi, I work for my company's IT department. We currently have an intermittent issue with Excel 2010. When our Finance team open an Excel.xlsx document from a shared drive they occasionally get an error message when they try to save saying 'Document Not Saved'. The file menu normally freezes and the only way to get to the save button again is to add it as a quick access shortcut. Then on occasions it will let the user save to their local desktop. On other occasions it won't let them save anywhere.
The only fixes that I have found for this are to save files on a local drive rather than the network which is not a fix. I also found a hotfix here but this doesn't apply to our server. We run a terminal environment using Citrix with Windows Servers 2008 r2. Our users connect onto one of the Windows Server 2008 r2 servers through Citrix. They then open files from our file server which is another Windows Server 2008 r2 server. The version of office is Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 32-bit 14.0.6029.1000.
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Hope it helps:). A couple of thoughts: 1) Is he overwriting an existing file when attempting to save to the location? Can he create new file there using excel? 2) Do you run with disk quotas on this storage area and is he close to his limit?
Excel 2007 onwards overwrites files by creating a new file, deleting the old file and renaming the new one to the original name (I think:-)) - could he be lacking a delete permission? If he's close to a quota limit creating the new file might generate the error. Long shot - it's an odd problem. Hi, Thanks for the quick responses.
I will answer the questions below. Mxtj wrote: How many users trying to use the same Excel sheet when it happens? Only one user at a time is trying to access the file/s and this happens with multiple files. Mxtj wrote: I found this comment in a forum.
See if it does any good. I personally never used it. Hi guys, I resolved my same problem.
I have windows 2008 server r2 and windows 7 pro station whit office 2010. My problem was from a settings from GPO 'Files not cached' where i put.tmp After i change it to 'Not configured' and my office can save on the network again Try to see if u have the settings active and remove it. I believe the GPO for this only applies if offline files are being used which are not used in this situation. I think I saw a thread on this previously but I will look into this in more detail, thanks. Scotty-G wrote: What is the size of the file? Speed of connection?
Microsoft Excel + Large/Complicated Spreadsheet + Slow network = All of the issues you have described. I've had this headache many times before. The only thing you can really do is to copy the file to the local system, work on it locally, then copy back to the server once finished editing PITA i know, but it's the nature of the beast! The files sizes vary with some of them being very large spreadsheets. I thought this may be part of the issue although one user had this issue with a file that was tiny a few times. The terminal server that they are connected to is a virtual server and the file server is also virtualised.
They both sit on the same physical hardware so the connection speeds will be very fast. There are no cables involved only virtualised network adaptors that talk to each other. Johndroid wrote: When they take a document from the shared drive doesn't it create a temp file? You can check where it is trying to save by going to 'save as' and if it's a different location than the shared drive, navigate to the shared drive manually and attempt a save. Is my best guess:) It does create the temp file.
I believe the issue is when it tries to save from this temp file and overwrite the original. If they manually choose the location and choose the network drive it says 'document not saved'. Most of the time it will not allow to save anywhere but occasionally they can save to their local desktop. I suspect the temp file may be becoming corrupt for whatever reason.
Karen1738 wrote: First of all.do all the shared users have the same version of excel on their machines? It could be a version issue.
They need to do a 'save as' instead of a save. Its either: a) not saving it as an.xlsx (ie, saving as a temp) and/or its trying tosave it in the temp directory. Save will ensure they are applying the correct extension and that is saving to the correct directory.
Our users all use the same version of Microsoft Office as they log onto one of the terminal servers that are configured identically. We are a new company so have never used an older version of office on our system. We do have.xls files that we inherited from the company that we purchased the business from but the same issue happens on newly created.xlsx files. Usually when this issue happens the file menu is unavailable so we have to add the save as button to the quick access toolbar at the top and then after clicking 'save as' and then pointing it to any network location we get the error message. We usually end up having to copy and paste the whole spreadsheet into Excel outside of Citrix, save the file and then upload it which is a real pain. On rare occasions it will let us save the file to the users desktop on the terminal server.
We can then close Excel and then re-open the file to allow the file menu to work again. I have seen a lot of articles on this but none that mention that the file menu freezes. Even if it is unable to save the file I'm not sure why it would cause the file menu to be unavailable until Excel is restarted. It happens to multiple users and has started to happen for a new user that has just joined Finance that has a fresh profile. Hi Matt, That looks promising especially as it's a similar environment to the one we're using.
Slightly different error message although this May be due to the version of office. The client is a Windows Server 2008 r2 terminal server and the file server is Server 2008 r2 as well. They both run on Hyper V and are on the same virtual host so there can't be any network disconnections between client and server. I'll try this next week and see if it makes a difference. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to it. Seems to happen randomly. Hi, I am having the same problem, has there been a fix on this?
Lee1966 wrote: Hi, I work for my company's IT department. We currently have an intermittent issue with Excel 2010. When our Finance team open an Excel.xlsx document from a shared drive they occasionally get an error message when they try to save saying 'Document Not Saved'. The file menu normally freezes and the only way to get to the save button again is to add it as a quick access shortcut. Then on occasions it will let the user save to their local desktop.
On other occasions it won't let them save anywhere. The only fixes that I have found for this are to save files on a local drive rather than the network which is not a fix.
I also found a hotfix here but this doesn't apply to our server. We run a terminal environment using Citrix with Windows Servers 2008 r2.
Our users connect onto one of the Windows Server 2008 r2 servers through Citrix. They then open files from our file server which is another Windows Server 2008 r2 server. The version of office is Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 32-bit 14.0.6029.1000. Is anybody able to help with this please? Hi, I am having the same problem, has there been a fix on this?
Lee1966 wrote: Hi, I work for my company's IT department. We currently have an intermittent issue with Excel 2010. When our Finance team open an Excel.xlsx document from a shared drive they occasionally get an error message when they try to save saying 'Document Not Saved'. The file menu normally freezes and the only way to get to the save button again is to add it as a quick access shortcut. Then on occasions it will let the user save to their local desktop. On other occasions it won't let them save anywhere. The only fixes that I have found for this are to save files on a local drive rather than the network which is not a fix.
I also found a hotfix here but this doesn't apply to our server. We run a terminal environment using Citrix with Windows Servers 2008 r2.
Our users connect onto one of the Windows Server 2008 r2 servers through Citrix. They then open files from our file server which is another Windows Server 2008 r2 server. The version of office is Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 32-bit 14.0.6029.1000. Is anybody able to help with this please? Hi, This issue appears to have gone away for us now without any fix being applied. We did have another issue at the time where Citrix was freezing and lagging a lot which was caused by our Internet connection switching to our slower backup line intermittently. I assumed this was the cause of the issue as users would have briefly lost connection to their terminal session.
Since this was resolved there have been no more reports. I read previously that this kind of issue can occur if the user looses connection to the temp file of the document that they currently have open. Regards, Lee. Thank you for your reply, We have Ncomputing Vspace running, with 5 terminals all linked to AD server 2012. The share resides on the ADserver. The odd this is that his happens intermittently and the system or excel document says document not saved and excel 2013 freezes. By forcing the task manager to end the task, the document will not open again but stand in a frozen state.
I have also noticed that the temp file, does not go away, you have to forcefully delete the file and re-open the excel file. In the interim, I have removed the network share and pointed everything to the local pc. Opening and saving is not a problem since the change. This indicated to me that the problem exists on the network share, and excel. This is not always the problem but is an annoying one as backups run from the server drive. I am still searching for a fix on this. I have disabled the AV thinking that this is one of the factors that may of caused the problem, but the problem still exist.
Oh, I remember another one that got me some time ago also. If you keep re-opening a file with an identical name from an email it will create a temp file with the same name and a version number at the end that stops working after 99 attempts. I don't think this stops you from saving the document, more stopping you from opening it, and it is from an email in outlook only. Another more relevant thought: are these users on wireless? Could they have dropped network connection, briefly, after having opened the document? Or even when trying to save?
One more idea (I promise to stop!) is that the save dialogue is appearing and somehow being hidden behind another window. This makes Excel appear to freeze when in reality all you need to do is Alt-Tab to the save dialogue. Don't have a solution for this one yet, but I want to follow this thread as I have a similar problem. Server 2012 R2 / Hyper-V based network, Windows 8 and 8.1 workstations, large Excel 2013 file of payroll information stored on a network drive. When user clicks the Excel save icon, sometimes it saves, sometimes it doesn't.
This intermittent problem can be duplicated. There is no indication of the save's success or fail in Excel. For now, my user is checking the network drive to make sure the file's date and size change. I work for a company that stores data on a number of network locations and many of the users update files but do not have the delete permission in those folders. After digging into this I found that this only happens when they don't have the delete permission in that folder. This worked fine when they were using office 2000 but after they updated to 2013 the issue started to occur.
They can save it to the desktop and copy the file over as suggested in previous responses, but that is not a permanent solution. The can replace the file even though they don't have the delete permission. It seems that with Excel 2013 it changes ownership of the file to the person that is saving it. It appears to actually erase the original attributes of the file and replace them with a mix of the copied information such as the original creation date and it names the user that modified the file as the owner. To fix for now just make sure they have the delete permission in the folder that they are saving. Microsoft states that in order to save an Excel file the user must have Read, Write, Modify and Delete.
There are many causes to this problem, this is just one possible solution to one variation that can cause this error.
Share this story. If you want to use Windows 10 on a Mac with either Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion, you’ll have to strongly consider buying a new version of your virtualization software of choice. Parallels on Wednesday this week is releasing its latest upgrade, Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac, with perpetual licenses costing $79.99 per device (or $49.99 if you're upgrading from version 9 or 10). VMware should be following up soon with its next version, Fusion 8. You may have spent money on either Parallels 10 or Fusion 7 just, but that year-old software will only provide bare-bones support for Windows 10, which.
A big selling point of Parallels is its “Coherence' mode, which lets you run Windows applications on a Mac as if they were native Mac applications. With Coherence Mode or VMware Fusion’s analogous Unity, each Windows application gets its own window, making it feel like you’re using just one operating system even though you’re actually using applications from both Windows and Mac. But without Coherence or Unity mode enabled, all Windows applications are isolated in a single window that contains the whole Windows operating system.
That’s the situation with Windows 10 on the year-old editions of Parallels and Fusion. You can run Windows 10 in a single window, but Coherence and Unity modes are crippled.
“With Parallels Desktop 10, we offer full support for Windows 10 in full-screen and window mode, but we do not in Coherence mode and that will not be changing,” Parallels spokesperson John Uppendahl told Ars in a phone interview. Upgrading to Windows 10 from previous versions of Windows is free, and therefore quite tempting. But trying to use Windows 10 in Coherence Mode on Parallels 10 leads to things like this. Ditto for trying to open the Windows 10 Mail application. Things were slightly different if I changed a setting to make Parallels think I was running Windows 8.1, allowing me to turn on the 'Windows 7 Look.' This involves running Stardock's Start8 and ModernMix applications, which are bundled with Parallels. With this setup, opening the Start menu wouldn't take me out of my primary desktop, but it was partially hidden by the Mac's dock, and trying to search for applications in the menu simply closed it.
It was possible to open Metro/Modern applications on the Mac's primary desktop, but after minimizing an application I wasn't able to re-open it by clicking its dock icon. Naturally, Parallels has new features in version 11 that it wants users to pay for, such as integration with Microsoft's Cortana virtual assistant and a new power-saving travel mode. Version 11 also strips some developer-focused features out of the basic edition and puts them in a 'Pro' edition that can be pricier depending on how often you like to upgrade; more on that later. Parallels says offering any Coherence support for Windows 10 on last year’s version is too difficult. Even a working Start menu and the ability to use Windows applications as if they were Mac ones isn't supported. “Truly speaking, that requires a lot of work for us,” said Parallels VP of Desktop Virtualization Nick Dobrovolskiy.
Although the Windows 10 Start Menu looks similar to the one in Windows 7, Microsoft has “significantly changed” how it works on the back end, he said. The situation is similar on VMware Fusion 7. I wasn't always able to put Windows 10 into Unity mode, but when I successfully did so the software placed this giant gray mass over my Mac screen. VMware is “aware of some limitations with regards to Windows 10 and the Unity view mode,” a company spokesperson told us, adding that single-monitor configurations work better than multiple-monitor ones. “There are some fundamental changes that Microsoft made to how the Windows 10 desktop is drawn that we are actively working to adapt to. Fusion 8 improves upon this situation dramatically, and we look forward to sharing more of the great new features we have in store with you soon.” VirtualBox, the free, open source virtualization software from Oracle, hasn’t been updated to run Windows 10 on Mac in its version of Coherence (VirtualBox calls it “Seamless' mode). We’ve asked Oracle when it plans to add that support and will provide an update if we get one.
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UPDATE: Oracle told us that it made some changes for Windows 10 in VirtualBox 5.0.2 but it still considers Windows 10 support to be a 'tech preview,' both as a host and guest operating system. 'We expect to provide formal support within the next few Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0 maintenance releases,' Oracle said. 'Regarding Seamless mode—that is also planned to work with Windows 10 once its support is announced.' If you like keeping Windows separate from Mac, there's no problem. You can upgrade to Windows 10 without a second thought as it should work just fine on VirtualBox or previous versions of Parallels and VMware.
But if you like having Windows and Mac integrated, you have a decision to make. If you’re happily using Windows 8.1 on last year’s version of Parallels or VMware, there’s nothing wrong with not upgrading. You’ll still be able to use Microsoft Office and just about any other Windows applications you desire on your Mac. If you want Windows 10 and that “new” Start Menu and integration with Microsoft’s Cortana, maybe it’s worth paying Parallels or VMware for their latest software. But if that’s your plan, it’s worth doing a free trial of the new software instead of paying to upgrade immediately, just in case you run into bugs.
(Parallels offers a two-week free trial, which should be available at.) It's not uncommon for the first release of a major new version to have bugs for the first few weeks or so. That's been the case with. When I upgraded to Parallels 10 a year ago, the virtualization software kept giving me critical error messages for no apparent reason. I also had constant trouble with Microsoft Outlook e-mail messages disappearing behind the main Outlook window. In both cases I contacted Parallels support; while they weren’t able to fix my problems immediately, they did identify a problem at “the code level” that was causing the weird Outlook behavior. The bugs finally went away after a few months and a few updates, and now Windows 8.1 is working quite well on Parallels Desktop 10. I've learned that waiting is often the best course.
Parallels didn’t offer us early access to version 11, but gave us a rundown of new features:. Performance improvements for Windows launch and shutdown, file operations, and suspension of virtual machines. 'Always on Cortana' lets users control either Windows or Mac applications with Microsoft's new virtual assistant. Travel mode extends battery life 'up to 25 percent by temporarily shutting off select resources that drain power.' .
The Mac's Quick Look feature (double tap the space bar to preview a document) is extended to Windows files. Force Touch gesture support that enables Quick Look or looking up the definition of a word, on Macs with the appropriate trackpad. When right-clicking a Windows application icon in the Mac dock, the user can see recent documents in the menu or create new ones. Mac location services are made available to Windows applications. Synchronization of volume between OS X and the virtual machine.
Easier method to make a Windows application the default application for opening a specific file type. Developer features now restricted to “Pro” edition Parallels also has a new 'Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac Pro' edition aimed at developers and business users. This is available only with a subscription, costing $99.99 per year for new customers.
Anyone upgrading from Parallels 9 or 10 can get the Pro version for $49.99 per year. With the subscription, you can upgrade to future versions while paying the same amount each year. Oddly, upgrading from Parallels 9 or 10 gets you the $49.99 yearly pricing indefinitely, but new customers or those upgrading from version 8 or earlier have to pay $99.99 every year going forward.
'Parallels Desktop 9 and 10 customers can upgrade to a special offer of Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition for $49.99/year for life, instead of the regular $99.99/year price,' Uppendahl told Ars. 'The Pro Edition is $99.99/year for new customers, including subsequent years.' This Pro edition includes some features that used to be available in the basic version of Parallels. Last year's version of Parallels allowed virtual machines with up to 16 virtual CPUs and 64GB of RAM.
Now only the Pro edition can make virtual machines that big; the non-Pro edition goes up to 4 CPUs and 8GB of RAM. 'For regular users, we found that what we are putting in Parallels Desktop 11 is more than sufficient,' Uppendahl said.
Linked clones and nested virtualization for Linux guests, both available in the basic Parallels last year, are now restricted to 'Pro.' New features for the Pro edition include integration with developer tools Docker, Visual Studio, Chef, Jenkins, and Vagrant. Macs can share business cloud storage with Windows with the Pro edition's support for Box and the business editions of Dropbox and OneDrive. Other Pro features include 'Additional user profiles for developers, power users and testers for optimal configuration for their particular scenarios; Advanced networking tools and configuration for virtual networks to test complex networking scenarios, including the ability to simulate some network instabilities; Headless mode for running virtual machines in the background without user interface; and 24/7 phone and email support,' Parallels said.
Finally, Parallels has a new business edition that includes all the Pro features plus centralized management of virtual machines, a Web-based license management portal, business-class support, and the ability to enforce security policies on USB devices. The business edition is available for $99.99 per year.
Promoted Comments. Ars Tribunus Militum. I suspect that maintaining all of this deep integration between host operating systems and various supported guest platforms from version to version really does require a significant amount of engineering effort, and I'd honestly not have a problem paying annually for that, but. The way that Parallels conducts business makes me uncomfortable. When they make unambiguously anticonsumer choices solely for business purposes, it makes it difficult to give them the benefit of the doubt. Moving standard desktop features into the more expensive 'Pro' version is a good example of this.
I also don't like the way that their Mac application occasionally displays popup ads. And I was really turned off by a few years ago.
If they've got really good Docker integration in their $99/year Pro version, I'm sure a lot of developers would have no problem paying that. It's one of those things that would be relatively easy to get an employer to reimburse, too. But given some of the shit that Parallels pulls, I don't know that I'm comfortable relying on them and making them a fundamental part of my development stack. I don't know if they are going to keep raising prices and moving specific features that I need into higher tiers, or whatever. 2411 posts registered May 27, 2005.
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