What it really means is "I tried to save the Autorecover file and the
operating system said "Nup!" and I have no idea why."
There can be four reasons:
1) The file is corrupt and Excel can't work out how to describe the data in
it.
2) The Operating System has filled up its temporary space and needs to
clean itself out.
3) Something has changed the file permissions so you no longer have
authority to write or delete from that folder.
4) The Hard Disk has an error affecting the space where the file should be
saved.
Those are in order of likelihood. Let's start with number 2: Shut the
computer down, wait until the power goes off, then restart. That will
trigger Unix (Mac OS X...) to run its cleanup housekeeping tasks.
If that doesn't fix it, move on to number 3) Fire up Disk Utility and run
"Repair Permissions", then restart (again!).
If it still isn't fixed, the most likely cause is that the file is cactus,
and the only sensible solution is to copy the data into a new workbook.
Hope this helps
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