Help please

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Since the last few days, I have 2 strange files on my Mac Air desktop that are xlsx files. They cannot be opened or deleted. When I try to trash them, it comes up with an error message that the item “whatever” cannot be moved to trash as it cannot be deleted.

This is seriously annoying me because I hate clutter and because I have no idea where these files came from and what they are.

Any suggestions please?

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those are ms excel files. you can open them in office 2007 , windows environment.

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Yes they are, but they do not open either. They just sit there staring at me.

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if those files are not kaam ki. who sent you that?

usually open office is worked, but if those files are anjan then better to delete rather being curious. :chai:

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Arrey, that's what I'm saying...they are NOt getting deleted.

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check file permission, try to login with admin account. no idea about mac, because i m windows guy. :D

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If excel is running, quit it before deleting these files, they may be temporary files created by excel. Does the names start with "~" or some other special character?

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Rayan, I tried deleting the files with both Excel running and not.

One file is DC4C9800 and the other is 68887900. No other characters.

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Seems like they are Excel Temporary files. Alot of people seem to have this problem with Excel. What you can try is to run permission repair from Disk Utility. >>> Reboot!

Let us know if the problem still exists after doing this, thanks.

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They are the temporary files created by excel while you are working on a new file (until you save it with a name), and they should be automatically deleted when you exit excel.

Try deleting .DS Store file on the desktop, reboot.If that doesn't fix the problem, try fixing the permission for that drive using the "Disk Utility"

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OK. Doing that right now. Will report in a few minutes.

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Nope. :(

The 2 darn files are still there, not getting deleted.

Hai mey ki karaaaan?

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You did a restart, right?

If yes, try this. Hold down Command+Alt+Esc, then select Finder and Force Quit. Then restart.

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:blush:

Thank you jee. It worked. A box of gulab jamuns being shipped your way ASAP.

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I just canceled the gulab jamuns shipment. 2 more files popped up again :mad:

What am I doing wrong :smack:?

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Once it happened to me the same but I am forgotten how they got deleted or may be I gave up. :cb:

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The procedure as mentioned by Zapatista above did work but it happened again. So I'm thinking that I have to change some settings somewhere. I'll just wait for Babaji to bless us with his knowledge. Meanwhile, I'll just sit patiently :(

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Did this occure after you worked with Excel again?

In the past, have you worked with Excel? If yes, I assume that this problem didn't occure back then? Did you do an update on your OS recently?

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Zap, yes I've been working on Excel.
Yes, I work on Excel quite a bit these days.
And yes these 2 unknown files pop up each time I'm working on Excel, but only in the last week.
No I haven't updated my OS recently.

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Hmm I see, it's a well known problem actually. Those files are just temp files which actually should not be on the desktop, but for some strange reason they end up there. You can't delete them because the process is still running in the background. I had to deal with this problem in the past also, and from one day to another it went away by itself. LOL Good Luck, until then just make use of the Force Quit option.