Bob,

Many thanks for your info.  I never did find the file you mentioned on my computer, nor did I solve the mystery.  Myra Norman from Middle TN State U tells me she too is unable to submit to grants.gov on her computer and has to go to another computer in her office to make it happen.  Maybe it's a Tennessee thing.

I have another question for you - I'm working from home today due to icy roads and my computer has windows xp, correct version of pureedge, pop-ups enabled, using Internet explorer.  I submitted an NIH proposal to grants.gov and all went well until I reached the point where the submission confirmation page was supposed to pop up. What did pop up was a blank page with the extension /cached_file.xfdl

I am checking grants.gov periodically to see if they received the application package or not. Nothing yet.

Do you know if the blank page I viewed was in fact the submission confirmation?  I tried searching for it on my computer, but couldn't find it. One last question for you is, where exactly on my computer would this file reside? I searched my hard drive but it was not there.

Thanks again for your help. Much appreciated.

Pam

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From: Research Administration List on behalf of Robert Beattie
Sent: Wed 1/31/2007 12:39 PM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] Help needed with another Grants.Gov mystery

A situation like this occurred with an earlier version of the IBM
Viewer for the Mac.  If you are using a non-Mac it might be the
same.  The program created a the submission page as a file in a
folder in the viewer folder.

Search your computer for  a file named
cached_file.xfdl

Open this file to get the submission validation screen.

Otherwise I suggest you transfer the application to another computer
and submit again.

Bob
xxxxxx@umich.edu

On Jan 31, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Plotkin, Pamela T. wrote:

I just hit "submit" on an electronic grant application package to the
ED via Grants.gov and instead of opening up a confirmation page after
I hit submit, the application package closed, nothing appeared on my
screen (other than my lovely desktop picture.)

Has any one out there had this twilight zone experience?

Any help appreciated.  I do have 4 hours and 15 minutes to solve the
problem.

Best wishes,

Pam

Pamela Plotkin, Ph.D.

Assistant Vice President for Research and

Director of Sponsored Programs

East Tennessee State University

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Box 70565

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