Excel 2016 zipped folder - what is the content of XL>Drawings folder
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i see a lot of Excel files that have problems with performance on good machines... the files are small - 1-5 MB.
When i unzip them there is always the folder "Drawings" in XL folder (unzipped they can get to 100MB)- when i gets deleted the files work flawlessly.
Why it gets created? What users are doing wrong when creating/copying Excel files?
Whats the content of that folder? Seems nothing get deleted from the excel content when this folder is gone...
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i see a lot of Excel files that have problems with performance on good machines... the files are small - 1-5 MB.
When i unzip them there is always the folder "Drawings" in XL folder (unzipped they can get to 100MB)- when i gets deleted the files work flawlessly.
Why it gets created? What users are doing wrong when creating/copying Excel files?
Whats the content of that folder? Seems nothing get deleted from the excel content when this folder is gone...
microsoft-excel office365 xlsx
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i see a lot of Excel files that have problems with performance on good machines... the files are small - 1-5 MB.
When i unzip them there is always the folder "Drawings" in XL folder (unzipped they can get to 100MB)- when i gets deleted the files work flawlessly.
Why it gets created? What users are doing wrong when creating/copying Excel files?
Whats the content of that folder? Seems nothing get deleted from the excel content when this folder is gone...
microsoft-excel office365 xlsx
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i see a lot of Excel files that have problems with performance on good machines... the files are small - 1-5 MB.
When i unzip them there is always the folder "Drawings" in XL folder (unzipped they can get to 100MB)- when i gets deleted the files work flawlessly.
Why it gets created? What users are doing wrong when creating/copying Excel files?
Whats the content of that folder? Seems nothing get deleted from the excel content when this folder is gone...
microsoft-excel office365 xlsx
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This article discusses the file layout in detail. In my test, adding an image and deleting the drawing folder forced excel to recover the file without the image. It could be in certain cases the drawing info can be recovered, but if it were my data, I wouldn't trust that capability. YMMV
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Hmm, but there are no drawings in the file... never seen them. Why there would be a drawing folder then?
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This article discusses the file layout in detail. In my test, adding an image and deleting the drawing folder forced excel to recover the file without the image. It could be in certain cases the drawing info can be recovered, but if it were my data, I wouldn't trust that capability. YMMV
answered Nov 13 at 15:05
uSlackr
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Hmm, but there are no drawings in the file... never seen them. Why there would be a drawing folder then?
– pbaup
yesterday
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This article discusses the file layout in detail. In my test, adding an image and deleting the drawing folder forced excel to recover the file without the image. It could be in certain cases the drawing info can be recovered, but if it were my data, I wouldn't trust that capability. YMMV
answered Nov 13 at 15:05
uSlackr
8,3002445
Hmm, but there are no drawings in the file... never seen them. Why there would be a drawing folder then?
– pbaup
yesterday
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This article discusses the file layout in detail. In my test, adding an image and deleting the drawing folder forced excel to recover the file without the image. It could be in certain cases the drawing info can be recovered, but if it were my data, I wouldn't trust that capability. YMMV
answered Nov 13 at 15:05
uSlackr
8,3002445
This article discusses the file layout in detail. In my test, adding an image and deleting the drawing folder forced excel to recover the file without the image. It could be in certain cases the drawing info can be recovered, but if it were my data, I wouldn't trust that capability. YMMV
answered Nov 13 at 15:05
uSlackr
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answered Nov 13 at 15:05
uSlackr
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answered Nov 13 at 15:05
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answered Nov 13 at 15:05
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Hmm, but there are no drawings in the file... never seen them. Why there would be a drawing folder then?
– pbaup
yesterday
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Hmm, but there are no drawings in the file... never seen them. Why there would be a drawing folder then?
– pbaup
yesterday
Hmm, but there are no drawings in the file... never seen them. Why there would be a drawing folder then?
– pbaup
yesterday
Hmm, but there are no drawings in the file... never seen them. Why there would be a drawing folder then?
– pbaup
yesterday
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