What is strange is that there are two other files which all of the sudden have the same issue, all 3 files have the. Or the server you are trying to access is not responding'. I recently used the file but now when I want to open it it says 'The file you are trying to open is possibly read-only or the location you are trying to open is read-only. My very important budget-file is corrupted! I use Excel for Mac 2008 on my Macbook (Mac OS X 10.6.8).