Dean

Autorecover offers the chance to recover from a crash, not user fat fingers.

The temporary Autorecovery files are deleted when/if the workbook is
successfully saved/closed, which was the case in your situation.

So.......yes, you are right. No do-overs.

Some info for your perusal and possible assistance in future.

If you're using Excel 2002 or 2003, there is no Autosave in XL2002 and 2003 as
there was in earlier versions.

Autorecovery from ToolsOptionsSave is it. This is not the same as Autosave
which made true incremental saves at intervals and alerted you before saving.

Autorecovery just saves a temporary file which it deletes if Excel closes
normally without incident.

BTW.....Dave Peterson reports that he tried an earlier version of Autosave.xla
in XL2002 and it seemed to work fine.

I have also tried the Autosave.XLA from XL97 on 2002 and 2003 and does the job.

To download the 97 version go here.....

http://www.stat.jmu.edu/trep/Marchat/sp2001/Library.htm

In addition to the above......Jan Karel Pieterse has an addin called AutoSafe
which also doen't alert before saving.

It doesn't overwrite the existing workbook when it saves. It saves to a user
selectable folder. And when it's done, it either deletes these backups (or
puts them in the recycle bin). And the user can always restore the backups
from the recycle bin.

http://www.jkp-ads.com/Download.htm

(look for AutoSafe.zip)


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 15:02:14 -0800, "Dean" wrote:

I just accidentally closed out the wrong file of two files without saving
and then, foolishly further, re-opened it in the hopes that I had saved it.
I did not. I assume that any automatic recovery saves I did are lost
forever right?

Thanks!
Dean, the idiot!