Cannot Save Excel File To A Network Drive

If you’re encountering this Excel error, this article can be a great resource to resolve your issue. Through this article, we will talk about possible causes and workaround on how to fix them. Your changes could not be saved, but were saved to a temporary document. Close the existing document, then open the temporary document and save it under a new name.

Cannot save Excel file to a Network Drive

Causes why ‘Your changes could not be saved’ error occurs while saving Excel file to shared network

There can be a number of reasons why this error can occur while you are saving your Excel file on a network drive and here are 10 very likely reasons. So, now that we know the causes let us check out the solutions.

Your changes could not be saved Excel error

Here are the fixes you can try to resolve the “Your changes could not be saved” error in Microsoft Excel: Read further to understand these features in more detail.

Fix Excel Sharing Violation error

1]  Inform Network Administrator of folder rights

This could be the first check that you must apply to resolve this issue. Notify your network administrator that you need Delete and Modify rights for the folder on the network drive where you are saving the Excel file with the correct file name.

2]  Save the Excel workbook file on the Local Hard Drive

This is another workaround that you must surely try before following any complicated fix. Try saving the Excel workbook file to the local hard drive. You can also try to save the workbook to the folder in which you have rights for modification and deletion. After this, just share the file through any USB drive or online sharing medium.

3]  Temporarily disable the Antivirus program

Many a time Antivirus programs that have access to all files on the PC can create issues for the saved Excel workbook files. Even the antivirus on the network server can create an issue as at times they conflict with the Excel file-saving process. Therefore, disabling the antivirus or removing it can prevent them from accessing the folder and might resolve the issue.

4]  Repair corrupted Excel Workbook

If your Excel workbook file is somehow corrupted there are chances that they won’t be saved onto the shared network drives. You may need to repair the potentially corrupted Excel workbook, there are manual as well as other methods.

5]  Add Subkey in the Registry Editor

In the registry editor, you can modify the windows applications’ different register values. By Modifying these values, you can bring significant improvement in the performance of the applications. Here is how you can add a subkey in the Registry Editor,

Firstly, type Run in the Windows search bar and press enter.In Run windows, type regedit on the box and click on OK.

After clicking on OK, the Registry Editor window will openNavigate to the below address to open Options folder,

Next, right-click on the Options folder and then go to New and then click on DWORD (32-bit) Value.

After clicking OK, a new value will be there alongside the previous ones. Rename the value by right-clicking the mouse and then double click to open a new window. In that window, input 1 in the Valid Data field as shown below.Click ‘OK’

Post setting the value as 1, you should be able to save the Excel files on the network drive successfully.

6]  Change the file extension of your Excel workbook file

Try changing the extension of the Excel workbook file from .xlsx to .xls (or vice versa) and see if it works.

7]  Rename your Excel workbook file

Try renaming your file by modifying some words. In a shared network, some words can be in restricted mode, so renaming could do the trick for you.

8]  Move the worksheet of your Excel

To see if the parent Excel worksheet file has issues within, try moving the sheets to a new workbook. In case the parent workbook has issues, then the problem would go away. I hope the above solutions explained in this post helped you fix the issue. If you have any other fixes, do let us know in the comments. Read: Microsoft Excel Document not saved error

How to fix corrupted Excel files?

Follow the next steps to repair corrupted Excel files

I am not able to save my Excel file, what should I do?

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