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dreamer - 01 Sep 2006 01:38 GMT

Hi All,

I have a big problem and would really appreciate direction as to possibly
retrieving it. I sent myself a file from work home in Excel. When I opened
from my Outlook Express program I worked on it and completed my project
after a few hours. I then went to SAVE and it saved it. It didn't ask to
change the name or anything, it just disappeared like usual.

I went back into my e-mail and all the work I did is not there. Someone said
it can be found in a different area on my hard drive but I don't know where.
I did a search for it and it didn't find anything. Would it be hidden. Where
do I look?

I would appreciate any help at all. I know now that I should have opened it
from e-mail and saved it to my hard drive and then worked on it. But I saved
it back to e-mail. Please help.

Sam
powersearch at shaw dot ca

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Dave Peterson - 01 Sep 2006 02:53 GMT

First, don't go into your email to reopen the attachment. You could get unlucky
and overwrite the file with all the changes.

If you're lucky, you could open excel directly.

Then click on File on the menubar and you may see the file at the bottom of that
dropdown. (Tools|Options|General Tab. Make sure "Recently used file list" is
checked and the number is 9. If it doesn't help this time, it may help in the
future.)

If that doesn't help, maybe you can do this.

Open My Computer (on the desktop)
rightclick on the C: drive, choose properties
Click the disk clean button on the General tab
Select the "temporary internet files"
DON'T CLEAN THIS UP!
click on View Files

Start looking through each of those folders for your .xls files.

Maybe sorting by date modified or type (while in View|Details mode) will help
you find your .xls file

If you find it, right click on it and cut.
Traverse to where it should be stored
and paste it there.

> Hi All,
>
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> Sam
> powersearch at shaw dot ca

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Bill Sharpe - 01 Sep 2006 03:26 GMT

> Hi All,
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> Sam
> powersearch at shaw dot ca

If you know the file name, go into "My Computer" and search for it.

Bill

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