If I download a file without opening it

Next, I am opening the source Excel Workbook to read the data from it. Excel would not physically open the file and it is in a readonly state.

ScreenUpdating to true. Check out this article. We just learnt how to read data from a Closed Excel file without opening it. This is a very simple procedure. You can now simultaneously update multiple files , using data from a single source, without worrying about distributing or updating the data manually. More seriously, File Explorer may stop working. In Windows, the built-in tool — System File Checker, can be used to scan damaged system files and repair them.

Step 1: Input cmd in the search box of Windows 10 and right-click Command Prompt to run this tool with administrator privilege. Wait a few minutes until the verification is complete. That is, when making a folder and adding items to it, Windows is able to set its type to music, media, pictures, etc. But for the Download folder, the file types are random.

So, Folder Discovery may be a bug since it slows down the load time of the Downloads folder. We delete comments that violate our policy , which we encourage you to read.

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Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 11 years, 1 month ago. Active 1 month ago. Viewed 44k times. I have an xml file to be downloaded. Alloi Alloi 2 2 gold badges 7 7 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. Need to be done on the server side. Do you have access to the server side code, and if so is it PHP or what? Are you the client or the server? Your question is quite ambiguous. Add a comment.