[ic] Excel Parse Fails Even with template.xls???

[AS]

> Hi folks,
>
> I am having real problems uploading an excel products spreadsheet into
> IC, I have been told that there is nothing wrong with the IC install
> and it must be my spreadsheet.
>
> I am not convinced, I have gone back to the default template with a
> single product line and get this message:-
>
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> FATAL error
>
> Failed to parse XLS file upload/template.xls:
>
> Progress to date:
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>
> In the error.log I see this:-
>
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> require trapped by operation mask at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/File/Copy.pm
> line 10
> Compilation failed in require at (eval 43) line 3
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>
> It appears in the middle of some perl script that seems to be
> mentioning countries and shipping, my locale is set to en_GB if it
> makes any difference.
>
> Can anyone help me with this please??
>
> Many thanks,
> Andy.
>
> www.tvcables.co.uk
>
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>Whenever I get those errors it always seems to be the spreadsheet. In
my
>case I am using the foundation theme which has sample data included.
You
>might want to look closely and make sure Excel hasn't added some
offending
>charcters. Take a look at the errors log and see exactly where IC
balks.
>
>David Radovanovic
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I am fairly certain this is not a spreadsheet problem as my spreadsheets
all load fine on my home lan system. I also cannot get the foundation
construct.xls file to parse.

What else can I do, I am really stuck here??

Thanks,
Andy.