‘Cannot find the file or one of its components’ Excel Error and Recovery

Microsoft Excel is an electronic spreadsheet application that allows you to create, edit, and organize data as spreadsheets. MS Excel 2003 and earlier versions use binary file format as the standard file format, while MS Excel uses Open XML format. Excel files can get corrupt due to network errors, application faults, virus attack, unexpected shutdown, and other similar reasons. In such situations, you can't open the file or the file becomes unreadable. To restore data, you need to use your recent file backup. However, if backup is found to be damaged, incomplete or non-existent, Excel Repair tools can prove as sure solutions to recover and restore the file.

Consider a scenario, you try to open an Excel file and it doesn't open correctly. In addition, it gives the following error message:

"Cannot find the file or one of its components. Make sure the path and filenames are correct and that all required libraries are available."

You can't access the contents of this file.

Cause

One of the possible causes of this error message to occur is that the file you are trying to open is corrupted or damaged.

Solution

To repair such damaged Excel files, you need to try these methods:

• Try to open the file with ‘Open and Repair' feature
• Save the affected file in HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) format
• Make use of external referenced to link to the damaged Excel file and recover data
• You can use a macro for data extraction, if a chart is linked to the damaged file
• Try to open the file in MS Word or MS Excel Viewer
• Make use of MS Excel File Recovery Macro and extract data
• If above measures fail, delete the damaged file if you have valid backup of file
• If no file backup is available or backup is damaged, you need to use excel recovery applications.

Excel repair software are powerful tools that use scanning algorithms to safely analyze, repair and restore the damaged Excel files. Such software provide advanced features, automated recovery options, and self-descriptive interface.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is an unmatched solution to repair damaged Microsoft Excel files. It supports Excel Recovery for Excel 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000. It can restore all file components, such as hyperlinks, formulas, charts, pivot tables, macros etc. The read-only software is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, and NT.