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Autosave to a memory stick
I have a backup utility that failed at the same time I had a hard drive
failure, resulting in a highly inconvenient loss of data. I want to employ autosave as an alternative, writing to a memory stick, instead of a shared drive, for speed. I can't seem to make it work. Has anyone made this work? Office 2003, Win XP Pro. Thanks |
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Autosave to a memory stick
Excel 2003 does not have an autosave add-in. You might see if JK Pieterse's
Auto Safe does what you want. http://www.jkp-ads.com/Download.asp -- Jim "gc" wrote in message ... |I have a backup utility that failed at the same time I had a hard drive | failure, resulting in a highly inconvenient loss of data. | | I want to employ autosave as an alternative, writing to a memory stick, | instead of a shared drive, for speed. I can't seem to make it work. Has | anyone made this work? | | Office 2003, Win XP Pro. | | Thanks |
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Autosave to a memory stick
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If you're using Excel 2002 or 2003, there is no Autosave in XL2002 and 2003 as there was in earlier versions. Autorecovery from ToolsOptionsSave is it. This is not the same as Autosave which made true incremental saves at intervals and alerted you before saving. Autorecovery just saves a temporary file which it deletes if Excel closes normally without incident. BTW.....Dave Peterson reports that he tried an earlier version of Autosave.xla in XL2002 and it seemed to work fine. I have also tried the Autosave.XLA from XL97 on 2002 and 2003 and does the job. To download the 97 version go here..... http://www.stat.jmu.edu/trep/Marchat/sp2001/Library.htm In addition to the above......Jan Karel Pieterse has an addin called AutoSafe which also doen't alert before saving. 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) Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:54:01 -0800, gc wrote: I have a backup utility that failed at the same time I had a hard drive failure, resulting in a highly inconvenient loss of data. I want to employ autosave as an alternative, writing to a memory stick, instead of a shared drive, for speed. I can't seem to make it work. Has anyone made this work? Office 2003, Win XP Pro. Thanks |
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Jan Karel Pieterse's AutoSafe is the way to go:
http://www.jkp-ads.com/Download.htm It saves a copy into a holding directory, then removes those to the recycle bin. I end up using the recycle bin as a one or two week archive. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com _______ "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... gc If you're using Excel 2002 or 2003, there is no Autosave in XL2002 and 2003 as there was in earlier versions. Autorecovery from ToolsOptionsSave is it. This is not the same as Autosave which made true incremental saves at intervals and alerted you before saving. Autorecovery just saves a temporary file which it deletes if Excel closes normally without incident. BTW.....Dave Peterson reports that he tried an earlier version of Autosave.xla in XL2002 and it seemed to work fine. I have also tried the Autosave.XLA from XL97 on 2002 and 2003 and does the job. To download the 97 version go here..... http://www.stat.jmu.edu/trep/Marchat/sp2001/Library.htm In addition to the above......Jan Karel Pieterse has an addin called AutoSafe which also doen't alert before saving. 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) Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:54:01 -0800, gc wrote: I have a backup utility that failed at the same time I had a hard drive failure, resulting in a highly inconvenient loss of data. I want to employ autosave as an alternative, writing to a memory stick, instead of a shared drive, for speed. I can't seem to make it work. Has anyone made this work? Office 2003, Win XP Pro. Thanks |
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