Automatic file opening: a mystery

[Nelson78]

Hello everybody.

In the last few days something strange is happening on my pc: when I arrive at work, I detect the presence of an alert popup telling something like it is impossible to find the file xxxyyy under the directory zzz, as something is trying to open it (tomorrow I will provide a screenshot in order to be more precise).
Anyway, that popup blocks other Excel process running at night, so I need to inhibite it.

Actually, the questioned file has been on my pc until recent times, than it's been removed.

Now, I cannot detect what is trying to open it.

The situation when I leave at the end of the day is:
- Outlook is open and triggers Excel events when specific e-mails are delievered, but no one among the involved files seems to have instruction of opening that file;
- one Excel file is open all-night, but it doesn't contain instructions about that file.


Could you support me in identifying where the instruction lies?

Thank you.

 

[mole999]

i would guess in an excel file you have a timer set, that should have been stopped when exiting with a suitable routine. often users choose to circumvent the intended routine and the code remains active.

if you shut your pc down fully and restart that should cure it until the file is reopened and shut down badly

 

[Nelson78]

i would guess in an excel file you have a timer set, that should have been stopped when exiting with a suitable routine. often users choose to circumvent the intended routine and the code remains active.

if you shut your pc down fully and restart that should cure it until the file is reopened and shut down badly

Yes, it should be exactly what you suggested: I restarted and ever since the error has never happened again.