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Revovering a "saved over" file ??
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I've very stupidly overwritten an excel file. ( trying to create a new month, deleted all the info and then hit save !! DOH !! - one of those as soon as you hit the button you know that's not what you wanted to do !! ) Is there any way of retreiving the old file ?? or is it now gone for good ?? Mark. |
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Cheers for trying Steve, but alas I'm using 2000, and it doesn't give
you that option. Looks like it's gone forever, ( also looks like I'm going to be adding to the directories I back up !!! ) Mark. Scoops wrote: Hi Mark I'm using XP Professional and I can: Right-click the file Properties, Previous Versions and from there View, Copy or Restore it. Hope that helps. Regards Steve |
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XP Professional as in Ms Office XP Professional or Windows XP Professional? I do not see any menu commands like the ones you typed below. Could you please explain exactly what you're doing and where? Mark An overwritten file is just that....overwritten. But....maybe Steve is onto something here that can benefit all of us. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On 31 Jul 2006 09:36:17 -0700, "Scoops" wrote: wrote: guys, I've very stupidly overwritten an excel file. ( trying to create a new month, deleted all the info and then hit save !! DOH !! - one of those as soon as you hit the button you know that's not what you wanted to do !! ) Is there any way of retreiving the old file ?? or is it now gone for good ?? Mark. Hi Mark I'm using XP Professional and I can: Right-click the file Properties, Previous Versions and from there View, Copy or Restore it. Hope that helps. Regards Steve |
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uhuh..... your point being ??
I was kinda hoping that Excel may have a secret stash where it saves the last copy to before actually overwriting said file. But it doesn't look like it does. Gord Dibben wrote: Mark An overwritten file is just that....overwritten. |
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Gord's point is that excel doesn't have this secret stash.
But it sure sounds like Steve/Scoops knows something that the rest of don't. wrote: uhuh..... your point being ?? I was kinda hoping that Excel may have a secret stash where it saves the last copy to before actually overwriting said file. But it doesn't look like it does. Gord Dibben wrote: Mark An overwritten file is just that....overwritten. -- Dave Peterson |
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Gord Dibben wrote: Steve XP Professional as in Ms Office XP Professional or Windows XP Professional? I do not see any menu commands like the ones you typed below. Could you please explain exactly what you're doing and where? Mark An overwritten file is just that....overwritten. But....maybe Steve is onto something here that can benefit all of us. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP Hi Gord I'm afraid I may have improperly raised your hopes. I can indeed restore files in the fashion I described but, having checked with the company helpdesk, it's not a function of Windows XP Professional but rather one of Windows 2003 Server. Apologies for any hopes that now lie dashed upon a rocky desktop. Regards Steve |
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Thanks for the update Scoops.
Glad you got back to us. Gord On 1 Aug 2006 00:57:07 -0700, "Scoops" wrote: Gord Dibben wrote: Steve XP Professional as in Ms Office XP Professional or Windows XP Professional? I do not see any menu commands like the ones you typed below. Could you please explain exactly what you're doing and where? Mark An overwritten file is just that....overwritten. But....maybe Steve is onto something here that can benefit all of us. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP Hi Gord I'm afraid I may have improperly raised your hopes. I can indeed restore files in the fashion I described but, having checked with the company helpdesk, it's not a function of Windows XP Professional but rather one of Windows 2003 Server. Apologies for any hopes that now lie dashed upon a rocky desktop. Regards Steve Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP |
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