*Is your internet server an Apache server?* * * *Linux using 'magic' to look at the files contents and determines that an XLSX file is, in fact, a ZIP file. (It is!)* * * *Internet Explorer gets the MIME content from the Apache server telling it that an XLSX file is a ZIP file and, in its wisdom, adds .zip to the end of the file. And Windows hides the file extension, just to wrap the whole problem up in a neat little bow.* * * *Oh, and when you try to look at it in Explorer, it helpfully opens the file as if it were a folder, so you see a manifest file and other such ugly internals of an XLSX file that should never see the light of day.* * * *The solution is to add a couple of MIME types to the Apache config.* * * *If this is your situation, and you have trouble Googling it, drop me a line and I'll look up the settings I made recently on a client machine.* * * On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:16 PM, M Jarvis <brewda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having a very perplexing problem opening an XLSX spreadsheet... > Actually I can open it fine, it's a couple of users that are having > the problem. > > We have a couple of files parked on our intranet server done in Excel 2010. > > When these users click on the web link instead of opening with Excel > like they normally would, they are prompted with a "Do you want to > open or save this file?" dialog, it shows the file name as being XLSX, > but the little icon is appearing as a compressed folder icon rather > than the green X thingy. > > I tried the obvious stuff first by confirming file associations for > both Excel and Zip - they were fine, but I re-associated them anyway. > > Compatibility Pack - googling suggested it might be the compatibility > pack for Office so I uninstalled that. No change. > > I told IE7 to Open file based on extension rather than content - no joy. > > I read that the XLSX format is indeed a compressed file format, but no > one else (that I know of - yet) is having any problems with these two > files. We've been using them for years... > > Navigating to the folder where the files live, double clicking, opens > them just fine. Going into Excel, navigating to the files, opens them > just fine. > > And of course it's a major hassle to get access to one of these > computers to mess around with trying to find a solution for them - > argh... > > Any other suggestions for things to try? > > -- > Matt Jarvis > Eugene, Oregon USA > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4uTEnwVsY7gwmBhk=lxsha2x2xkpuzl+rodb28rpba...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
