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excel file lost

Nov 3, 2005 11:01PM PST

I have two excel workbooks that have lost all the information on them they have not been backed up yet and I need to know if there is another place to find the files?

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Re: Lost file
Nov 4, 2005 12:22AM PST

Try to open the file from where they were saved, change file type to "all files", see if there is a file with the extension .xlb

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(NT) (NT) I'm afraid not.
Nov 4, 2005 2:40AM PST
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Your post seems a little ambiguous
Nov 4, 2005 3:53PM PST

to me. Are the files there but all the cells are blank, or the files themselves missing as suggested by the title and the last sentence of the post? If the former, then Kees is right -- your data are lost and you must go back to square one.

If, on the other hand, it is the files themselves that are missing, you have a fighting chance. If the files were accidentally deleted, they may still be the Recycle Bin and can easily be recovered.

If the files may have gotten moved to a directory you are not looking in, do a search over all drives for their names. If you don't include the extension with the name, this will also find them if the extension was changed as suggested by rcgyuk.

If the file name may have been changed, search on some bit of text within the file. Make the search text as unique as possible to reduce the number of false hits.

Hope this helps

Frank