hi guys, can anyone please help me with this error? i have a list created in sharepoint (i am running wss 3.0)to track the project status. to the list, the team members upload different excel documents. for most excel docs, the system does not throw any error, but for some of them, the application displays the error - exception from hresult: 0x81070518any insight would be helpful.thanks, -- Pradeep Somanathan

Hi Pradeep,do you have any more information about the error in Event Viewer or in the logs under "hive12"?Cheers, Daniel Bugday Web: SharePoint Forum Blog: Daniel Bugday's SharePoint Blog

Daniel, thank you...also, i know that you have requested some additional info, but in the interim my server administrator tries to get some info from the error log, could you also let me know what you think "could" be an issue here?thanks,-- Pradeep Somanathan

Hi Pradeep, If the same user can open one Excel document in a library without a problem, and the same user gets that error opening another Excel document in the same library and permissions inheritance is not broken then it seems to be pointing toward an attribute of the Excel file.What version of Excel is being used? What Service Pack level are you at for Excel/Microsoft Office Suite?Service Pack 2 for MS Office 2007 fixed many weird errors that I would get.Hopefully that helps.Sincerely, Karl

Pradeep,i also think this can be a security issue.Check the permissions for the library and if there's any differece between excel client versions.Cheers, Daniel Bugday Web: SharePoint Forum Blog: Daniel Bugday's SharePoint Blog

Daniel, Karl - I think I was able to troubleshoot and find the root cause for this problem.There was a log file called \sharepoint_config_log.ldf in the Microsoft SQL Server data folder that turned out to be 600 GB !! and ended up eating all the space on the server - which was why users were getting that error message when trying to "upload files to the server" ( i am sorry here - i should have been more clear when trying to ask the question - as from what i gather from your responses, you were under the impression that users were unable to view the excel files; when really the problem was that they were unable to upload excel files. My apologies). Usually the log files shouldnt be so huge, but we had set the database recovery mode to FULL and therefore this transaction log file was capturing all the transactions from the time the application was set up; even though we had nightly backups. Somehow, we now need to truncate the log file and set it up so that it records only the transactions from the last nightly back up and then truncates the previous days' data when the next nightly back up occurs. regards, -- Pradeep Somanathan

Hi,thanks for sharing! Daniel Bugday Web: SharePoint Forum Blog: Daniel Bugday's SharePoint Blog

my pleasure..-- Pradeep Somanathan

You might just be running out of disk space. It could be any log file or files, or in my case it was sql server backups. After I deleted some of it, I was able to upload attachments again. yay