Was having problems with Excel opening the same document on two computers.
Went to save as to see where it was going and inadvertently saves as over a
very large important file that had not been backed in in a while. If there
anyway to get this back after doing the save as. I have searched the tmep
folders and can not find anything there. Is thereanother hiding place that
Microsoft might have put a backup?

Did you e-mail it to someone? If yes you have a chance.

Gulf South wrote:

Was having problems with Excel opening the same document on two computers.
Went to save as to see where it was going and inadvertently saves as over a
very large important file that had not been backed in in a while. If there
anyway to get this back after doing the save as. I have searched the tmep
folders and can not find anything there. Is thereanother hiding place that
Microsoft might have put a backup?

Also...
Did you check both computers for the file?
Save As does not replace the old file with the new one, it creates a new file.
Save replaces the old file with the current version.
Vista has some sort of file backup built-in.
Some Network systems create automatic backups - see the system administrator.
If it is an important file, maybe your boss has a copy.
--
Jim Cone
Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primitivesoftware
(Excel Add-ins / Excel Programming)



"Gulf South"
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Was having problems with Excel opening the same document on two computers.
Went to save as to see where it was going and inadvertently saves as over a
very large important file that had not been backed in in a while. If there
anyway to get this back after doing the save as. I have searched the tmep
folders and can not find anything there. Is thereanother hiding place that
Microsoft might have put a backup?

"Jim Cone" wrote:

Also...
Did you check both computers for the file?
Save As does not replace the old file with the new one, it creates a new file.
Save replaces the old file with the current version.
Vista has some sort of file backup built-in.
Some Network systems create automatic backups - see the system administrator.
If it is an important file, maybe your boss has a copy.
--
Jim Cone
Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primitivesoftware
(Excel Add-ins / Excel Programming)



"Gulf South"
<Gulf
wrote in message
Was having problems with Excel opening the same document on two computers.
Went to save as to see where it was going and inadvertently saves as over a
very large important file that had not been backed in in a while. If there
anyway to get this back after doing the save as. I have searched the tmep
folders and can not find anything there. Is thereanother hiding place that
Microsoft might have put a backup?

This is excel 2005 I think and I have looked every where for backup and I am
the IDIOT boss...lol . I will look on another computer to see if he may have
saved it.

Where is the original?

It will not have been saved over.

Save As just creates a new file with a different name.

The original is not over-written.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 6 May 2008 13:16:12 -0700, Gulf South <Gulf
wrote:

Was having problems with Excel opening the same document on two computers.
Went to save as to see where it was going and inadvertently saves as over a
very large important file that had not been backed in in a while. If there
anyway to get this back after doing the save as. I have searched the tmep
folders and can not find anything there. Is thereanother hiding place that
Microsoft might have put a backup?

They did a Save As and wrote over a "different" "important" file.

Gord Dibben wrote:
Where is the original?

It will not have been saved over.

Save As just creates a new file with a different name.

The original is not over-written.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 6 May 2008 13:16:12 -0700, Gulf South <Gulf
wrote:


Was having problems with Excel opening the same document on two computers.
Went to save as to see where it was going and inadvertently saves as over a
very large important file that had not been backed in in a while. If there
anyway to get this back after doing the save as. I have searched the tmep
folders and can not find anything there. Is thereanother hiding place that
Microsoft might have put a backup?

Now the light comes on<g

Thanks Bob

On Wed, 07 May 2008 09:21:15 -0500, Bob I wrote:

They did a Save As and wrote over a "different" "important" file.

Gord Dibben wrote:
Where is the original?

It will not have been saved over.

Save As just creates a new file with a different name.

The original is not over-written.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 6 May 2008 13:16:12 -0700, Gulf South <Gulf
wrote:


Was having problems with Excel opening the same document on two computers.
Went to save as to see where it was going and inadvertently saves as over a
very large important file that had not been backed in in a while. If there
anyway to get this back after doing the save as. I have searched the tmep
folders and can not find anything there. Is thereanother hiding place that
Microsoft might have put a backup?