After spending weeks of time for the preparation of your important document, you will save it with great fulfillment. Later you need to accomplish a little change to that file, so you will try to open it from Recent Documents list. What if, you experience an error “the file is either deleted or not accessible” instead of seeing your file? The assumption is itself horrible right? Well, this article helps you to learn how to handle situations like these…
“I am facing issues with my Office 2016 application. Whenever I try to access the file from Recent list, I get a message that states “This document is either deleted or not currently accessible.” and it also suggests me to close or remove the file from list. I have tried to resolve this problem by reinstalling Office on my Mac, but still the issue crops up. If anyone of you had come across this incident then please help me to fix it.”
What is “This document is either deleted or not currently accessible” error?
“This document is either deleted or not currently accessible” is an error code, which appears when you make any effort to access files that are:
- Not stored on your local hard drive
- Deleted/missing from source location (where it was saved)
- Present in list generated by previous version of application
- Contain broken link from Recent File list
Troubleshoot:
You may also face File Not Found error instead of above error message; but the cause would be same for both. Now you need to verify whether your file is present in source location or not. So go to the location where you have saved the file and check it. If file is there, open it, save once and close. Then try below techniques to fix the issue.
- Open Office application
- Click on File tab
- Click Options
- Go to Advanced
- Under Display, set Show this number of Recent Documents list to 0
- Click OK
- Recently used files list become empty at this moment
- Now set it to 20/30 (according to your wish) in Display
- Restart the application
Go to file’s source location, open it and close. Now you can see your file in Recent files list of Office application.
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- Download and install Yodot Mac File Recovery program on your MacBook computer
- Launch the software and wait till the main screen pops up
- On main screen you will get two options like 'Deleted File Recovery' and 'Lost File Recovery'
- In next window, select the drive from MacBook
- After completion of scanning process, recovered files will be displayed in two distinct view types such as 'Data View' and 'File Type View'
- Switch between those view modes and have a look at retrieved files
- Then Save them on desired destination location using Save option.
Notes:
- Always close Office application properly
- Keep your Mac system update with patches & security fixes
