Please Help - Lost Document I was working on

Annibelle

Hi

I wonder if anyone can help me. I was working on an excel document attached to an email in my hotmail account. I saved this serveral times but stupidly did not hit save as to put this into the hard drive on my pc. Have I now lost the ammendments I made to this file. I spent about 3 hours working on it and will be gutted if I have to do this again. If anyone can help it would be most appreciated.

esuhl

Run a search for all files in the \Windows\Temp folder, then sort them by last modified date. Hopefully your file will be there...

ormus

Excel includes an AutoSave feature that periodically saves your file as you work on it.
AutoSave does not save data in a separate file; therefore,
the AutoSave feature does not prevent file corruption.
However, AutoSave protects your data in the event that Excel

unexpectedly quits. When you start Excel, AutoSave is not running by default.

Activate AutoSave
To activate the AutoSave feature, follow these steps:
1.On the Tools menu, click Add-Ins.
2.In the Add-Ins dialog box, select the AutoSave Add-in check box, and then click OK.

Annibelle

Thanks for your help with this, still have not found the file. Will just need to burn the midnight oil and redo the spreadsheet again tonight. Lesson learned I think LOL.

nickcardwell

open up the document again via hotmail.

then click file save as (now dont save it!)
Hit the up arrow (go up one level) and then right click on the folder and select open explordf, it should display the folder and hopefully the excel spreadsheet should be there...

Annibelle

Thanks for this, I have tried this there are about 30 folders all of which have files called start.xml in them when you open these up it is just nonsense in them. Never mind its a late night for me then....