Where are the Excel Temporary save files located?
 

Where are the Excel Temporary save files located? I have windowes XP and
Microsoft Office Excel 2003
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dani

Answer: Where are the Excel Temporary save files located?
 

Hi Dani! Excel temporary save files are usually located in a specific folder on your computer. In Windows XP and Microsoft Office Excel 2003, the default location for these temporary files is:

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp

Note that "username" should be replaced with your actual Windows username.

To access this folder, you can follow these steps:

1. Open Windows Explorer by pressing the Windows key + E on your keyboard.
2. Navigate to the C:\ drive.
3. Double-click on the "Documents and Settings" folder.
4. Double-click on your Windows username folder.
5. Double-click on the "Local Settings" folder.
6. Double-click on the "Temp" folder.

In this folder, you should be able to find any temporary Excel files that were saved while you were working on a document. Keep in mind that these files are usually deleted automatically when you close Excel, so they may not always be present in this folder.

Where are the Excel Temporary save files located?
 

nitsa

Toolsoptionsgeneral tab, will tell you and allow you to change that
location.

Mike Rogers

"nitsa" wrote:

Where are the Excel Temporary save files located? I have windowes XP and
Microsoft Office Excel 2003
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dani

Where are the Excel Temporary save files located?
 

Some are in your windows Temp folder.

But from what I've seen, none of those files would help the user with anything.

There's a temp file that's created when you save a file, too. It's stored in
the same folder as the original file.

There's an autorecovery file (xl2002+) that can be stored in a user selectable
location.

What are you looking for?

nitsa wrote:

Where are the Excel Temporary save files located? I have windowes XP and
Microsoft Office Excel 2003
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dani

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Dave Peterson

Where are the Excel Temporary save files located?
 

I mistakenly erased an excel file that was located on my c drive and emptied
the recycle bin. I would like to be able to retrieve this file from the temp
directory if possible, or from any other location it is in.
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dani


"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Some are in your windows Temp folder.

But from what I've seen, none of those files would help the user with anything.

There's a temp file that's created when you save a file, too. It's stored in
the same folder as the original file.

There's an autorecovery file (xl2002+) that can be stored in a user selectable
location.

What are you looking for?

nitsa wrote:

Where are the Excel Temporary save files located? I have windowes XP and
Microsoft Office Excel 2003
--
dani

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Dave Peterson

Where are the Excel Temporary save files located?
 

"Deleting" a file doesn't actually delete it; it just marks the space as
available to be used. There are third-party programs that can sometimes
recover deleted files. The problem is that the space used by the file is
likely to become overwritten very quickly, and this makes the file
unrecoverable.

So your chances of successfully recovering this file are decent if you try
recovering it immediately after deleting it, and rapidly go downhill from
there. If you've been using the computer since then (for example to write
this question and read this answer), your chances are probably very poor by
now.


But if the file is important enough, it's worth a try anyway. Stop using the
computer in question immediately, if you haven't done so already. Download
an undelete program (here's one:
http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html but there are several others
to choose from; do a Google search) on a friend's computer and bring it to
yours on a floppy to try.


If this fails, your only other recourse is to take the drive to a
professional file recovery company. This kind of service is very expensive
and may or may not work in your case.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 11:52:00 -0800, nitsa
wrote:

I mistakenly erased an excel file that was located on my c drive and emptied
the recycle bin. I would like to be able to retrieve this file from the temp
directory if possible, or from any other location it is in.