Can you recover Excel files accidently closed using autosave?
 

Autosave is set to save every 10 minutes. A file that had been worked on for
at least two hours was accidently closed, never having been saved. Is their
anyway that the autosave can recover the information.

AFAIK, Excel deletes the backup files when the file is closed normally,
certainly when Excel is closed normally.

There is a utility available at

http://www.jkp-ads.com/Download.htm

called autosafe, but it, too, deletes the backup files when Excel closes
normally.

Consider it an expensive lesson in regularly saving your work.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"Mazamban" wrote in message
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Autosave is set to save every 10 minutes. A file that had been worked on
for
at least two hours was accidently closed, never having been saved. Is
their
anyway that the autosave can recover the information.

But autosafe can be configured to put that deleted file into the recycle bin.
And until the user cleans up that recycle bin, the file could be recovered.



Bernie Deitrick wrote:

AFAIK, Excel deletes the backup files when the file is closed normally,
certainly when Excel is closed normally.

There is a utility available at

http://www.jkp-ads.com/Download.htm

called autosafe, but it, too, deletes the backup files when Excel closes
normally.

Consider it an expensive lesson in regularly saving your work.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

"Mazamban" wrote in message
...
Autosave is set to save every 10 minutes. A file that had been worked on
for
at least two hours was accidently closed, never having been saved. Is
their
anyway that the autosave can recover the information.

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Dave Peterson