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by lisa.vallack

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We have unidentifed files appearing on our Windows File Shares which have no file extension and are just numeric eg. eg. 5C458200, EC593000. These files appear randomly of different file size (although none larger than the standard 4gb for an NTFS file)The files are always named in an 8 character-long, upper-case format - the last two characters are always two zeros and have no association with them.There is no way of finding out who created them.

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by rickrbyrne

Did you check the creator owner of the file. Which you can do by right clicking the file, select properties, then click the security tab, then select advanced, then select the Owner tab, then look and see who the owner of the file is. This should tell you who created the file on the share.

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by lisa.vallack

yes have done this but no info shown. I have since found out that there are Excel files in the same folders. We suspect that these files are created when Excel is opened for edit. Excel takes a copy of the original file and edits it to the temp file and then saves it back to the original file when closed. We suspect the problem is if there is an error experienced during the edit that the temp file is not closed off properly and gets into some sort of loop. The original file is updated with the changes however. We suspect that it is only relevant to Office Xp versions of Excel at the moment.

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