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What is this icon, un moveable, un trashable, un renamable etc ?
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Whist browsing, but having Excel open, this icon appeared on my desktop.
Purporting to be an Excel spreadsheet, but without .xlsx suffix, but one in the icon, I tried to trash it, couldn't, tried to move it, it went back to where it was, tried info, no joy, even tried (I know !) to open it in TextEdit then Excel, didn't want to know, so I screen grabbed it...
It was on the RHS of centre, about two thirds down.
Thankfully, after reboot, it has disappeared.
Never had anything like it before
Ideas ?
(Last edited by MacNNUK; Jun 15, 2011 at 02:33 AM.
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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If get info isn't doing enough for you, try FileUtilsCM. It's a contextual menu item that provides file info and several controls.
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Have you tried quitting Excel and then trashing it? Have you tried rebooting?
Steve
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Celebrating 10 years and 4000 posts on MacNN!
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I'd guess it's a temporary document for autosave.
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Originally Posted by Doofy 
Autosave file? (guess)
Originally Posted by turtle777
^^^ Bingo
-t
Originally Posted by olePigeon
I'd guess it's a temporary document for autosave.
It is autosave ! Thanks for the suggestion.
Didn't disappear as usual, must have hung.
Here's another one I used ScreenCap for, having reset autosave for 1 minute.
(Last edited by MacNNUK; Jun 15, 2011 at 02:36 AM.
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Originally Posted by ibook_steve
Have you tried quitting Excel and then trashing it? Have you tried rebooting?
Steve
...Thankfully, after reboot, it has disappeared...
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