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From: sec@cs.umn.edu (Stephen E. Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Sudden trouble opening Excell documents
Message-ID: <1990Jul24.195350.14146@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 24 Jul 90 19:53:50 GMT
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Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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cander@unisoft.UUCP (Charles Anderson) writes:
>Excell spreadsheets.  On some files, in some folders I can double click
>on one or more files and Excell comes up fine.  Other times I can
>double click on one file but not two.  Other times I must single click
>on one file and then use clover-O to open it.  When it fails it get the
>proverbial "Application is missing or busy".  This just started
>happening in the last week.  

This has been happing since the advent of MultiFinder.  It was
discussed here a year or so ago, and so far as I know there has
been no solution other than to just try opening your spreadsheet
again.  It always works for me on the second try.

Stephen E. Collins
Microcomputer & Workstation Networks Center
sec@boombox.micro.umn.edu