Thanks to wuontherocks for this tip on the forum. I'm guessing this happened after I changed the 'preferred file location', but I can not remember whether the change in '.open all files in:' was an error on my part (very stupid one). csv files into one folder and open the folder in terminal on the Mac. csv files with differing filenames into one. csv files (or for that matter: any kind of text files) into one.
#UN LINK FILES IN EXCEL MAC OS X CODE#
#UN LINK FILES IN EXCEL MAC OS X FOR MAC#
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Same thing happened to me excel was trying to open a few Gb of zip files! Unfortunately, the only way I’ve been able to fix that is quitting excel and open it again, you will loose changes as you can’t save before quit. This fix is probably too late for you guys, but may be useful for the next person. I have to wait until the whole bunch load up, then close them all.
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Whenever I open any Excel file, Excel opens every file on my desktop as well (excel or not).