Help! recovering temp excel files?

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kazaz

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tonight I opened an excel file from my email and then worked on the file for a couple of hour during which time I saved the document many times and when I was finished I closed the file. Now I am trying to access the file again and have realised that when I saved it from my email I just hit "save" and not "save as" as I should have. Can anyone tell me where this file might be saved?

I have searched my computer, including hidden files and temp internet files but cannot locate the file anywhere, but I saved it at least 6 or 8 times as I was working and it saved each time. My computer is NOT set to delete temp files when I close it and I've tried searching for it by name. I also tried to recreate my steps by opening another excel file from my email and hitting "save" to see where it is saving it and again it seems to be saving it "somewhere" but it is not visable in temp internet files, doesnt come up on a search by the file name, isnt in any of my folders or in hidden files (that I can see) I need this file back! can someone help?
 

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kazaz said:
tonight I opened an excel file from my email and then worked on the file for a couple of hour during which time I saved the document many times and when I was finished I closed the file. Now I am trying to access the file again and have realised that when I saved it from my email I just hit "save" and not "save as" as I should have. Can anyone tell me where this file might be saved?

I have searched my computer, including hidden files and temp internet files but cannot locate the file anywhere, but I saved it at least 6 or 8 times as I was working and it saved each time. My computer is NOT set to delete temp files when I close it and I've tried searching for it by name. I also tried to recreate my steps by opening another excel file from my email and hitting "save" to see where it is saving it and again it seems to be saving it "somewhere" but it is not visable in temp internet files, doesnt come up on a search by the file name, isnt in any of my folders or in hidden files (that I can see) I need this file back! can someone help?
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Kazaz
You were working on the file in excel, right? have you looked in the recycle bin? It may be saved in a different file name. I would suspect when you save excell deletes the previously saved item. If this file is life and death dritical, you may be able ti use a third party app to recover like undelete.

Hope this helps

Ken
 

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kazaz:

Check the Recycle Bin first,as zigzag3143 suggests.
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On my system I'd be using Everything search utility.

Everything Search Engine

If you know the name of the file, enter that.
If not, with a file whose name you do know, save it and search that.
Worst case, enter an asterisk followed by the Excel file extension,
and click the top of the date column until most recent are at top.

If you find it, right-click it in the Name column, and click Open Path.


Ardneh
 
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Thanks HEAPS Ardneh! That did the trick! The info was so important and I had no other way of getting the info back. Its very frustrating, it was very easy to retrieve these files in my old XP comp but I searched everywhere in Vista with no luck and it's a very easy thing to do!
Thanks again, I would buy yo a beer if I knew u! :D
 

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