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Tips to Solve Error 'Cannot copy Filename.xls'

An Excel Repair tool can scan and fix corrupted Excel files using powerful, yet safe, scanning algorithms. Most of the companies provides their demo version on their official websites for download. These applications are easy to install and use.

Author: Mac Smith

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Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application, packed with various features that simplify a lot of work, like pivot tables, macros, calculation, graphing tools, and many more. For this reason, Excel is a widespread application and is generally used to create and manage business critical information. But sometimes due to ad-hoc usage, external factors or system issues, the Excel files can get corrupt and become partially or completely inaccessible to the user. These are the situations when a user needs to recover from the last available backup. But if backup is unavailable or invalid, and it is not possible to restore, it is recommended to use an XLS Repair utility.

Microsoft Excel files (.xls and .xlsx) are stored many times on an external storage media, such as a USB or CD, to move data between different locations. If the file has not been moved properly, or the media is infected by a virus or the media itself is corrupted, odds develop that the Excel file may become corrupt. In such situations, you may fail to perform some file operations.

To comprehend such problems in more detail, consider you move an Excel file on a USB. When you attach this USB to a Windows computer and try to view and access this file, it fails to open. Additionally, when you attempt to copy the file, it results in an error message as below:

“Cannot copy .xls. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.”

where, Filename refers to the name of file and .xls is the file extension used by Microsoft Excel in Excel 2003 and earlier versions. As the result of this error, the file cannot be copied. Such situations generally indicate Excel file corruption.

Solution

To solve the above stated problem, you should:

Try to open the file on a different computer
Use a different application to open the file
Restore from a backup
Use a third-party tool to Repair Excel file

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is an advanced utility that repairs corrupted Excel (.xls and .xlsx) files and restores them as original. The software can Repair Excel files of MS Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 , and 2000. The tool can restore all images, charts, formulas, functions, macros etc. The tool is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000.

About Author

Mac is a self employed Internet entrepreneur and product reviewer. This repair excel file utility is extremely useful when the excel file gets corrupted due to internal program errors, hardware malfunctioning and more. This repair excel file software recovers all types of excel file components & repair it also.

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Tips to Solve Error 'Cannot copy Filename.xls'