I recently deleted an excel from the server. What are the steps to recover
the deleted file?

It depends on whether or not your IT staff has a robust and diligently
maintained backup system, and whether or not your file was on the
server during a maintenance window when such a backup would be
performed. You need to talk to someone on your IT staff.

Hi Jason,
A polite note or phone call to your data administrator requesting restore from last night's
backup, and letter from your manager that no other systems are affected.

I expect that person is you, since you deleted it from the server.

Someone might be able to recover all or most of a deleted file from hard drives, but it
is not part of Excel, and if you don't recover the entire file unlike a flat file listing, it
probably won't do you much good. You might look in the same directory for a backup
file .bck or .bak extension if your Excel was set up that way when a Save As was done
like when the file was originally created. Also look for files with names in hex that do
not have an extension.

. http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/backup.htm

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"Jason" wrote in message ...
I recently deleted an excel from the server. What are the steps to recover
the deleted file?

Actually, the last fewl versions of Excel have used the *.XLK extension for
"always create a backup" files.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:17:29 -0500, "David McRitchie"
wrote:

You might look in the same directory for a backup
file .bck or .bak extension if your Excel was set up that way when a Save As was done
like when the file was originally created.