Microsoft Excel for Mac 2011 was crashing whenever I attempted to open iton a MacBook Pro laptop I use. Whenever I attempted to reopen it, I would bepresented one by one with files to reopen that had been open when it crashed.
If I chose to reopen all of the workbooks, it would display the message 'Notenough memory.' then crash again. The problem occurred even afterI closed other applications that were open and rebooted the systemto minimize the amount of memory used by other processes runningon the system.
Following are the causes of Excel Not Enough Memory error: 1. Copying Formulas to Large Area It’s obvious to encounter Excel insufficient memory error if you are trying to copy the formula to large area of your worksheet.
- Not knowing the inner workings of Excel, I can't say why it worked so long with the extraneous data and then all but crashed. Maybe Excel has a problem with memory management. 31 people found this reply helpful.
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Whenever you attempt to reopen Excel after it has crased with files open,it may prompt you to recover changes to those files from AutoRecovery filesit created. The AutoRecovery files for Microsoft Office 2011 arestored under a user's home directory at ~/Library/ApplicationSupport/Microsoft/Office/Office 2011 AutoRecovery. For Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac they are storedat ~Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office2008/AutoRecovery.
The files are stored as Excel binary worksheet (BIFF12) .xlsb files, even if the original fileyou had opened was an Excel Binary File Format .xls or Office Open XML-based and macro-enabled file - seeFile formats that are supported in Excel for further information on Excel file formats. The XLSB format is alsoreferred to as BIFF12, which stands for 'binary file format for Office 12', which was introduced in Microsoft Office 2007, which was codenamed 'Office 12', and supported in Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and later versions. An XLSBfile is a ZIP containeras are .docx filescreated by Microsoft Word. On a Mac OS X system, you can extract thecontents of a .xlsb file, if it hasn't been corrupted by an Excel crash, from a command line interface (CLI) using the Terminal application found in /Applications/Utilities, e.g.unzip example.xlsb.
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I copied one of the files that I had edited, for which I needed the latestversion to retain changes I had made to the document in the last week, to another location, but found that it was only 171 bytes, far toosmall to contain all of the data in the spreadsheet. The originalfile name was MSGRS.xls whereas the AutoRecovery filewas named ~$MSGRS (version 1).xlsb . Note: if you seea '$' in the file name you will need to 'escape' its meaning witha backslash character which serves as an escape character, taking away its special meaning to a Bash shell, when copying the file with the cp command.
Note: if you are copying the file from directory where Microsoft Office stores the AutoRecovery files from a Terminal window without enclosing the path in quotes, you will also need to use the backslash character to'escape' the spaces and parentheses by placing it immediately before thosecharacters. Otherwise you will receive an 'unexpected token error message.
In this case, I couldn't extract the contents for the .xlsb file withthe unzip utility, since it was a corrupted, incomplete file.
On a system running Apple's OS X operating system, crash reports for auser's account are stored in ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/,so I checked on the file name for the last Excel crash report. Crash reportsare stored with a file name that begins with the application name, whichis followed by a time stamp, then the name of the system, and then a.crash at the end of the file name.
When I checked on what was listed for the cause of the crash in the filesby looking for the line that immediately follows the 'Application SpecificInformation:' line in the files with grep -A 1 'Application SpecificInformation:, I saw 'stack overflow' listed for the last three crashes.
I wasn't able to determine the cause of the stack overflow, but, sinceI saw several files only 171 bytes in length in the AutoRecovery directory,which meant I wouldn't actually be able to use them to recover any recentchanges, and, other than the MSGRS.xls one, whichappeared to be unrecoverable at this point, I didn't need to recoverany of the others, I chose to reopen Excel again, but not attemptto reopen any of the previously opened files when I was promptedto reopen them. That allowed Excel to open normally without crashing.After re-entering data into the last saved version of theMSGRS.xls spreadsheet, when I closed Excel, I saw thatthere were no longer any files in the AutoRecovery folder.
I later noticed that Excel, when itautosaves documents, willput a file with 'AutoSave' at the beginning of the file name in theAutoRecovery directory. E.g., I saw the following when I had a filenamed pending_removal.csv open in Excel.
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