broken alias problem

Jeroen Camstra(jeroenc[at]bigfoot.com)
Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:09:05 -0500

WinMac Digest #393 - Tuesday, August 17, 1999

  Re: [WinMac] Error in loading DLL for Excel on Mac?
          by "Lisa Weihl" <lweihl@cs.bgsu.edu>
  Re: Error in loading DLL for Excel on Mac?
          by "Rolf Ahlgren" <rolf.ahlgren@ethical.se>
  broken alias problem
          by "Jeroen Camstra" <jeroenc@bigfoot.com>

Subject: Re: [WinMac] Error in loading DLL for Excel on Mac?
From: Lisa Weihl <lweihl@cs.bgsu.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:19:38 -0500
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>I have 2 machines running MacOS 8.5.1 and Excel 98 for Mac. The PB 3400 is
>fine, the PM 9500 displays an alert with the heading 'Microsoft Visual
>Basic' and the text "Error in loading DLL" when I load a spreadsheet with
>macros. Both machines seem to have the identical files in the Microsoft
>folders including the system folders. Help!?
>
>Thanks,
>Ron LaPedis

I haven't seen this for a while but it happened all the time to our Macs
here when we were installing Office 98 last summer. It's documented how to
fix it in Microsoft's knowledgebase somewhere. Let me see if I can
remember the fix. I think if you throw away the Embedding Preferences and
PPC Registration database from the Preferences folder, restart and then try
to open Excel to see if your problem goes away. Believe it or not those
are files for MS apps registering their installation. It seems to me there
was one other suspect file also but browsing my prefs I can't remember
which one and I don't seem to be able to find it a MS right now. Does
anyone else think MS's web pages just keep getting worse every time they
tinker with them:-)? I looked again you might also try throwing away the
Office Registration Cache.

Good luck,
Lisa

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Subject: Re: Error in loading DLL for Excel on Mac?
From: Rolf Ahlgren <rolf.ahlgren@ethical.se>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:09:04 -0500
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Check if the Type Libraries folder in the Extensions folder is
missing or if the
content is damaged.

There is an article from Microsoft on this: Article ID Q184659

Rolf Ahlgren

> WinMac Digest #391 - Sunday, August 15, 1999
> I have 2 machines running MacOS 8.5.1 and Excel 98 for Mac. The PB 3400 is
> fine, the PM 9500 displays an alert with the heading 'Microsoft Visual
> Basic' and the text "Error in loading DLL" when I load a spreadsheet with
> macros. Both machines seem to have the identical files in the Microsoft
> folders including the system folders. Help!?

Subject: broken alias problem
From: Jeroen Camstra <jeroenc@bigfoot.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:09:05 -0500
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Winmac-ing people,

We're running NT Server 4.0 with SP3 and sfmfix. After a server hang last
night all mac users have aliases pointing to the wrong folders on the
server volumes. I've had this problem before; back then there was no
sollution for this problem and I still can find no information about
solving this.

Is there anything I can do to prevent this? Does SP4/SP5 help?

With regards,

Jeroen

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