Hello, I have followed your advice and here is the result: 
Cannot open - Y:\In\filereport.xlsOLE exception from "Microsoft Office
+ Excel":

Excel cannot access 'filereport.xls'.  The document may be read-only o
+r
encrypted.

Win32::OLE(0.1703) error 0x800a03ec
    in METHOD/PROPERTYGET "Open" at Y:/In/FileReport.pl line 172

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The file is not read-only or write protected and it shouldn't be, this is the main reason I'm using Y: drive, which is mapped as a basic user and grants full control to it. I googled the 0x800a03ec error but didn't came up with something relevant, I will continue digging the internet for an answaer to this error. If you have any ideea abut this err please help ! Thanks.

In reply to Re^4: cygwin, make, perl, win32::ole (excel) problem by cugetare
in thread cygwin, make, perl, win32::ole (excel) problem by cugetare

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