Fix File Excel Corrupted

[Jon Levatte]

Ifneither automatic nor manual repair works, there are some recovery methods that might help salvage your data. You can also take some preventive measures to avoid losing your work by automatically saving a backup copy of your workbook or creating a recovery file from time to time.

Use external references to link to the corrupted workbook To retrieve only data and not formulas or calculated values from the workbook, try using external references to link to the corrupted workbook.

Yes, its 2021.2. It works with small data, but larger files it does not. This image is a mock up, the first three inputs are small and fake, and they work. The last one is a real file, it breaks on this. The real data other than this basic excel file comes from db's and also break. But if i output with the output tool, no problem. we are trying to make them look nicer in the table output with render.

I had a very important Excel file with data that is not available anywhere else open when this happened, and after the restart the file (saved on OneDrive) could not be opened: an error message saying "Excel cannot open the file 'Events checklist.xlsx' because the file format or file extension is not valid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the file extension matches the format of the file".

I have tried using the Excel "open and repair" option (both repair and recover), change the calculation to manual in the formulas option, add an "everyone" user with full access in the file security properties, changing manually the extension from .xlsx to .xls (didn't work as it would only result in .xlsx.xls) but nothing worked.

I have the same problem as many others who have posted here. I tried the help tips on Microsoft site you suggested with the link, but it did not fix the problem. After reading other posts, I did find that I could open the corrupted Dropbox files with Word and Excel that is installed on my iPhone 12, but they are still corrupted in Dropbox and also when I copied them to my desktop. Do you have any suggestions, please?

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Thank you for your prompt reply! I started having corrupted files about 6 months ago. Prior to that, I had no problems for about 2 years that I've been using Dropbox. I'm running a Lenovo laptop with Windows 10 that I cannot open certain Excel and Word files on, although I can open other files in the same folders. My iPhone 12 Pro Max running IOS version 14.3 opens them with no problem.

I can't open an Excel file that is important to me due to the extension not being valid or corrupted.

I've tried about everything that I could find online but havent been able to solve it, possibly due to a different Excel version?

Remember to create a backup of the corrupted file before attempting any repair methods, especially if you decide to use third-party tools. If none of the above methods work, it might be worth reaching out to Microsoft Support for further assistance or considering professional data recovery services. The text/steps was revised with the AI.

@MathiasssI had the same problem when I copied a good file to a new subfolder. I think this was the issue: This error message occurs when you save or open a file if the path to the file (including the file name) exceeds 218 characters. This limitation includes three characters representing the drive, the characters in folder names, the backslash character between folders, and the characters in the file name.

I have Bot deployed to carry checklist process and it was working fine for months. But in last few weeks the checklist excel sheet and the config sheet is getting corrupted. I fixed by replacing a new sheet but again the same error occurred and sheets were corrupted.

System.InvalidOperationException: Specified part does not exist in the package. at UiPath.Executor.WorkflowRunner.EndExecute(IAsyncResult result) at UiPath.Core.Activities.InvokeWorkflowFile.EndExecute(AsyncCodeActivityContext context, IAsyncResult result) at System.Activities.AsyncCodeActivity.System.Activities.IAsyncCodeActivity.FinishExecution(AsyncCodeActivityContext context, IAsyncResult result) at System.Activities.AsyncCodeActivity.CompleteAsyncCodeActivityData.CompleteAsyncCodeActivityWorkItem.Execute(ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager)

May be the Write range activity used in the end of the process is corrupting the excel file. So the Read range activity fails in the next run. Is there solution to it or some thing I could avoid in the excel file to overcome this issue.

I have a 2022 Macbook Air M2 and an iPad Air 2. All run the latest versions of the operating systems. My Mac has Excel 2021 and my iPad has the Excel 365 app. I have a number of Excel spreadsheets which are stored in the documents folder in iCloud drive. I regularly edit these files on my Mac, and occasionally also open and edit them on my iPad. This has worked without problems for the last six months until this week. Now if i open a file on my iPad, the next time I try and open it on my Mac or iPad I get an Excel error saying:

I found something that helped me a little maybe it can help you too. Use your Mac, locate the excel on your icloud, try opening it with Numbers. Probably your numbers is gonna give some sort of an error just like excel does however this time it asks you if you want to browse this file's history and restore it. If you accept, it shows a page in which it allows you to scroll through all past variations of this file. Locate the last file right before you used your ipad and restore it. Open it with numbers and export it to excel. Now this will not give you the same excel but at least it will show you your data right before using your ipad which could be some sort of a guideline to create the same excel sheet for yourself.

This is still a problem. The problem is with iCloud. If the Excel file is located on in a iCloud folder, and opened and modified in a Microsoft Office iOS app, it will corrupt it where you no longer can open it. However, if you do this on a file in a OneDrive folder, you are able to open and edit normally with out corrupting it. Additionally, you can use the Files app to go to a OneDrive folder and it does the same without corrupting it.

I have the same issue for excel files saved on icloud. This is a serious problem/risk for any excel files saved on icloud and needs to be fixed. The corrupted file is now 66kb, which is significantly different from the size of the "good" file.

I wanted a certain file to always be at the top of a sorted list view. I started the file name with *** . iMac Excel open it fine; iPad Excel refused to with your same error message. More than likely you've changed some aspect of the file iPad Excel just doesn't like.

The problem I have is when I use a Shortcut or iOS Files App to open an Excel file, sometimes I can read only, close and reopen (but not always), and modifying a cell always corrupts the file when there is more than one sheet, several formulas or its >70kb.

An alternative work around that appears to work - in the iOS Files App, copy the file from iCloud to On My iPhone, edit and exit, then copy the modified file from On My iPhone back to iCloud, no instances of corruption, but I have only tried this a few times!

My robust solution is to do real work on an actual computer ... 2020 27" iMac Retina. There's just nothing like the enhanced productivity of a 27" screen filed from side to side with a multi sheet Excel file.

This is beyond frustrating from both Apple's perspective and Microsoft's perspective. Clients use both systems, both file sharing apps, etc. I am still receiving the same corrupted error when opening .xlsx or .docx files and it is completely ruining the functionality and seamlessness of working from varying devices.

Has anybody come up with a solution for this corruption? Or is there a way to submit a ticket to both Apple and Microsoft to fix this? It was not an issue before and now it is... something has to change.

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