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RE: Spurious changes on Windows 7 (Win 7 Win7)

From: Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:28:09 -0400

> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 13:05, Allen <oldracingcars_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I've recently updated from a Windows XP PC to a Windows 7 machine
> and
> > moved across several repos.
> >
> > When I do a commit, all (or the vast majority anyway) of the
> Excel
> > (.xls XLS) spreadsheets are listed as having changed.  And a few
> PDFs
> > too.  I have checked the last updated dates on the files and some
> > haven't changed for years but for some reason SVN is seeing a
> > difference.
> >
> > Does anyone know what might be causing this?
>
> It's Excel. Open any Excel file, then close it. Don't change
> anything,
> don't click Save, just open it and close it. Excel changes
> something
> in the file & doesn't tell you about it. You can't always trust a
> Last
> Modified date - they're easily manipulated.
>
> I just opened Excel & created a spreadsheet with a value in cell
> A1.
> Then I quit Excel, opened the file, then quit Excel. MD5 checksum
> confirms - Excel changed the file and I didn't do a thing.
>
> C:\>c:\_apps\tools\unxutil\md5sum Book1.xls
> 5b2fa69b9322179bdeae0f2e1525b846 *Book1.xls
>
> C:\>c:\_apps\tools\unxutil\md5sum Book1.xls
> 482db9d75a2a384ef248fc69b3072755 *Book1.xls
>

I wonder if turning of AutoCalculation would stop this from happening. I know in word there is also a setting where it saves your last printed date to the file so everytime you print a doc the file is updated. I usually turn this off too.

BOb

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