I've seen some posts that say Panda Client Shield can leave this junk out there,
too.

And I've seen one person say, er, insist that excel does it. But I've never
seen this.

But I'm not sure I'd put my money on the little green men!

Jon Peltier wrote:

I get files like that from time to time, and I'm not using AVG. I don't know
if they are the autorecover files Excel builds, or if little green men place
them there. I have on occasion deleted the characters after the .xls in the
file name and opened them in Excel. I seem to recall that they open fine,
but I can't tell you whether they are at all up to date or the answer to
your hopes.

- Jon
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Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
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These files aren't created by excel.

I'd bet that your antivirus program (AVG???) created them.

I have no idea how AVG creates them or what AVG puts in them, but you may
want
to change the name to something.xls and see if they can be opened in
excel.



TShirtPrintUK wrote:

We had a disastrous accident and deleted an Excel file permanently. We
still
have eleven TMP files though in the same folder (with names like RT
ORDERS.xls~RFefb0e6.TMP), and I've retrieved an old archived version of
the
original .xls file with records up to March last year.

Is there some way of using the TMP files to restore the data from the
deleted version of the .xls file?

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Dave Peterson

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Dave Peterson