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MS Office Forum / Excel / New Users / January 2006Seniors Need Help! Help Retrieve Deleted Excel Document
Hello All, My wifeand I are seniors and we unfortunately deleted a very important Excel document, a spreadsheet. We have found software programs that will restore the document, but cannot afford the $50 for just the one document. Is there an easier and less expensive way to retrieve this document? Please help! Loretta and Alan Have you emptied the Recycle Bin? If not, you'll find your document there. Double-click on the Recycle Bin to open it. If you see your document there, right-click it and choose Restore. It will be moved back to its original location.  SignatureCordially, Chip Pearson Microsoft MVP - Excel Pearson Software Consulting, LLC www.cpearson.com > Hello All, > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Loretta and Alan Hi Alan, I always at least try to delete so that things do not go into the Recyle bin, so I might not even think to look there, but that is the first place to look per Chip's suggestion. It is important to maintain backup files Backup, backup, backup, always backup your files http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/backup.htm There are programs that may be able restore a deleted file, some are free, some are not. When you delete a file you can't really expect much, at least act surprised if you actually do retrieve your file. I have retrieved one deleted file on my HD and I was surprised. though you would have better results if you deleted from a dedicated device that you have not written to since. Like I have retrieved many files off of CompactFlash card (camera) which is not surprising because nothing was done to it after accidentally deleting, there are no files created (no temporary, no permanent files). Not that simple on a hard drive. Related Information -- File Recovery (#relFileRecovery) http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/backup.htm#relFileRecovery particularly the links to LockerGnome. Used to be that recovery of NTFS files was difficult to get free recovery, but I think those are covered as well. FAT is the easiest to recover. Signature--- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm > Have you emptied the Recycle Bin? If not, you'll find your > document there. Double-click on the Recycle Bin to open it. If [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > > > Loretta and Alan Look in the Recycle Bin. You should have a Recycle Bin icon on your desktop (assuming you have Windows XP or Wondows 2000). Double click on the Recycle Bin icon and select your file from the list, then click Recover. SignatureGeorge > Hello All, > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Loretta and Alan Hi Chip & George, Thank you so much for the prompt response; we still have the same problem, though. We already emptied the recycle bin last week [not thinking!] and now, the problem of the lost document remains. Any help would be most appreciated! Loretta & Alan Alan, have you sent the file to anybody? if so there may be a copy in your e-mail program, you say that you are seniors, in school or age? If this was a file at school check with the IT person and see if there servers make a backup of the files on it.you say that you emptied the recycle bin last week, if that is the case I think the chances of retrieving the file are very small, the data has most likely been overwritten on the hard drive by now. You have probably looked but there is an option in excel to always save a backup, if this option was on the backup will have the original file name and the suffix .xlk. It will be in the same folder as the original. May be to late this time but ALWAYS back up your data on some kind of removable disk or drive. SignaturePaul B Always backup your data before trying something new Please post any response to the newsgroups so others can benefit from it Feedback on answers is always appreciated! Using Excel 2002 & 2003 > Hi Chip & George, > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Loretta & Alan Hi Paul, No we have not sent the spreadsheet to anyone. We are seniors as in "retired". As I said in my previous, there is a software program that we downloaded that did retrieve the "deleted" spreadsheet! The program, "XLS Regenerator" does not permit you to do anything but look at the document on your monitor screen! In order to save the restored program and use it once again, we must download the complete program. That costs $50.00 which we currently do not not have at our disposal to purchase. We were just wondering if there was another was to get around this problem... Oh well, its not the end of the world! Many thanks to all who responded for all of your time and help! Loretta and Alan Hi Alan If you can get the data to the screen with this program, you could try using the Alt+Prt Scr button to capture an image of the screen. (The software people may have disabled this, but its worth a try). You could then paste that picture into Excel, and at least you would be able to see the data, although you would not be able to use it. Of course, with the data visible, you could then re-create a copy of your original sheet. SignatureRegards Roger Govier > Hi Paul, > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Loretta and Alan Try PC Inspector, which is a free recovery program:- http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm SignatureRegards Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Paul, > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Loretta and Alan |
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