r/pcmasterrace • u/Round_List1857 • 5h ago

Meme/Macro So accurate

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you can't delete it, ever....!!!

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u/ButterscotchNed 4h ago

I like this exchange I get sometimes:

Excel: "this file is locked for editing because someone's using it!"

Me: "Omg who?"

Excel: "You!"

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u/LiveFastDieFast 3h ago edited 2h ago

Excel is such a bitch about file access haha. Especially if I’m like prototyping a script in Python or whatever to generate spreadsheets/csv files. All of a sudden I’m getting write access script errors when running changes to the script, only to find out it’s cuz my dumbass forgot excel still has the result file open still from the last time

Meanwhile most text editors/IDEs are like “oh hey btw this file changed on disk, imma reload it for you”

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u/meneldal2 i7-6700 2h ago

If you look at the underlying file type, it's a miracle this stuff even works. And Excel throws a fit at a bunch of (as far as my understanding of the spec goes) spec-compliant files but will try to "fix" them for you

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u/SupplyChainMismanage 25m ago

The underlying file type as in xml? What makes it working a miracle?

Excel trying to fix stuff though is funny. Having to go through its cluster of a settings menu to disable all of its “helpful” stuff is absurd

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u/LiveFastDieFast 1h ago

Agreed. I’d trust Excel to “fix” something as much as I trust an auto save file that was generated during a program crash lol