Yes, I believe the operating system folks call that feature "super
hidden", and as you found, you can't navigate to it.

Gonzalo Martin wrote:

Thank you very much Bob. Actually, the files are stored under the Temporary
Internet Files folder, as you supposed. The odd thing is that the folders
where files are temporarily stored are not shown even if you have the "show
hidden files" option set, and they are not found by Search either. You need
to know the exact name of the directory in order to access it.

"Bob I" wrote:


Notice I said probably. But I don't know how Vista handles it, hence the
suggestion about the Vista group.

Gonzalo Martin wrote:

Thanks for your answer. My Temporary Internet Files folder is set to keep
history for 90 days. Unfortunately, the Excel files are not there.

"Bob I" wrote:



Probably in the Temporary Internet Files folder. You could ask in the
Vista group to get a better answer. Of course if you have security set
to delete temporary files when you close the browser, it won't survive
at all. So the correct method is ALWAYS do a Save As first, THEN do your
editing.

Gonzalo Martin wrote:



I downloaded an spreadsheet from Yahoo mail, opened it directly (instead of
saving it to disk before using it), worked with it, saved to disk (instead of
saving as...), closed Excel, and now I can't find the file anywhere. It does
not appear in Recent files, it is not found by Search even when including
hidden and system files.
In summary, there is no way to find where does Excel save files opened
directly from the Web.