OK - not a happy bunny!

I have just lost a very productive 1½hrs work because the autorecover
function does not 'see' the changes made in VBA.

To centralise the macros used around my teams workbooks I have a 'store'
workbook that contains nothing but macros. Hence, when developing the macros
I am working behind the scenes so to speak.

I know all about "saving your work regularly" but time flies when your head
is down and the keys are being hammered and it's easy to lose track of how
much has been done.

I am guessing that the autorecover failed because nothing had been changed
on the spreadsheets.

Microsoft - - please give us back the Autosave function!

autorecover is a nice idea but is not infallable (sometimes scrambles
recovered files too)

Not happy and going for a walk - grrrrrr!

Have a nice day now.

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I remember seeing a downloadable add-in that recreated an Autosave function.

Can anyone tell me where it is please?

"Gizmo63" wrote:

OK - not a happy bunny!

I have just lost a very productive 1½hrs work because the autorecover
function does not 'see' the changes made in VBA.

To centralise the macros used around my teams workbooks I have a 'store'
workbook that contains nothing but macros. Hence, when developing the macros
I am working behind the scenes so to speak.

I know all about "saving your work regularly" but time flies when your head
is down and the keys are being hammered and it's easy to lose track of how
much has been done.

I am guessing that the autorecover failed because nothing had been changed
on the spreadsheets.

Microsoft - - please give us back the Autosave function!

autorecover is a nice idea but is not infallable (sometimes scrambles
recovered files too)

Not happy and going for a walk - grrrrrr!

Have a nice day now.

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Jan Karel Pieterse wrote an addin (works in any version) called AutoSafe (note
spelling).

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, not autosafeVBE.zip, for your purposes.)

Gizmo63 wrote:

I remember seeing a downloadable add-in that recreated an Autosave function.

Can anyone tell me where it is please?

"Gizmo63" wrote:

OK - not a happy bunny!

I have just lost a very productive 1½hrs work because the autorecover
function does not 'see' the changes made in VBA.

To centralise the macros used around my teams workbooks I have a 'store'
workbook that contains nothing but macros. Hence, when developing the macros
I am working behind the scenes so to speak.

I know all about "saving your work regularly" but time flies when your head
is down and the keys are being hammered and it's easy to lose track of how
much has been done.

I am guessing that the autorecover failed because nothing had been changed
on the spreadsheets.

Microsoft - - please give us back the Autosave function!

autorecover is a nice idea but is not infallable (sometimes scrambles
recovered files too)

Not happy and going for a walk - grrrrrr!

Have a nice day now.

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Dave Peterson

That's the one, cheers Dave.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Jan Karel Pieterse wrote an addin (works in any version) called AutoSafe (note
spelling).

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, not autosafeVBE.zip, for your purposes.)

Gizmo63 wrote:

I remember seeing a downloadable add-in that recreated an Autosave function.

Can anyone tell me where it is please?

"Gizmo63" wrote:

OK - not a happy bunny!

I have just lost a very productive 1½hrs work because the autorecover
function does not 'see' the changes made in VBA.

To centralise the macros used around my teams workbooks I have a 'store'
workbook that contains nothing but macros. Hence, when developing the macros
I am working behind the scenes so to speak.

I know all about "saving your work regularly" but time flies when your head
is down and the keys are being hammered and it's easy to lose track of how
much has been done.

I am guessing that the autorecover failed because nothing had been changed
on the spreadsheets.

Microsoft - - please give us back the Autosave function!

autorecover is a nice idea but is not infallable (sometimes scrambles
recovered files too)

Not happy and going for a walk - grrrrrr!

Have a nice day now.

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Dave Peterson

OK suspicions confirmed - Autorecover does NOT recognise VBA changes.

My excel has just crashed again but since my first post I had inserted
=now() on the front page of the macro store.

This volatile field is all that autorecover needs.

"Gizmo63" wrote:

OK - not a happy bunny!

I have just lost a very productive 1½hrs work because the autorecover
function does not 'see' the changes made in VBA.

To centralise the macros used around my teams workbooks I have a 'store'
workbook that contains nothing but macros. Hence, when developing the macros
I am working behind the scenes so to speak.

I know all about "saving your work regularly" but time flies when your head
is down and the keys are being hammered and it's easy to lose track of how
much has been done.

I am guessing that the autorecover failed because nothing had been changed
on the spreadsheets.

Microsoft - - please give us back the Autosave function!

autorecover is a nice idea but is not infallable (sometimes scrambles
recovered files too)

Not happy and going for a walk - grrrrrr!

Have a nice day now.

----------------
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suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
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http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc