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kmnotorius
Aug 16, 2019Copper Contributor
Phantom Photos: Images Duplicate Themselves Randomly in Excel Files Stored In SharePoint
I’ve spoken with Microsoft Excel customer support about this and there are no other known instances of the problem my team and I are having with two of our templates, which I designed myself from scr...
kvpool
Mar 04, 2022Copper Contributor
kmnotorius 2022 and still having this problem. Files are saved to SharePoint. Duplication only happens when certain users access the file, so I'm assuming it's a problem with their computer, not all computers. Any linked photos or photos using the camera tool are duplicated each time the user accesses that file. If it is not caught quickly, the accumulation becomes so large that the file begins to work slowly. If it gets out of hand, the only way to fix it is to delete the tab because excel will lock up trying to select all objects and delete.
MichaelF79
Jul 25, 2022Brass Contributor
It seems like it might be related to autosave. Some people are reporting that the issue stopped when they turned off autosave.