Hi

very unusual ... what drive did you save to, was it a local hard drive (C:)
or a network drive or???

i have seen a network "loose" a file but never a local hard drive.

apart from a virus scan (you didn't meantion that you had done one of these)
and checking your MRU list in excel (open excel, choose file .. check the
1 - 4 files listed at the bottom of the drop down menu ) i've got no other
ideas.

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I need help desparately. Last night I spent several hours working on an
Excel 2002 spreadsheet and it has disappeared.

I saved it routinely as I was making many changes updates etc. I opened
original file --stuff.xls --- made changes and saved it as again as
stuff.xls. I have done this several times before.

Today, when I go to open stuff.xls, it is nowhere to be found!!!!! I have
done a search, for any file modified since Thurs and nothing has appeared.
I
have checked the recycle bin, this did not go into auto recover nothing of
the like. I am just traumatized, because I have NEVER had anything like
this
happen before.

I even thought perhaps I didn't save it as often as I thought, (I know
that
I did) but I remembered that I saved it at least once and I can't even
find
an Excel file that has been modified since Thurs!!!

Does anyone have any idea what could have happened to this file?? BTW, I
have prayed, rebooted, run spybot, called witch doctor, all with no
success.

I have never had a file to just disappear with no trace. Any help would
be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance---