Can you recover Excel files accidently closed using autosave?

[Guest]

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.

 

[Bernie Deitrick]

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

There is a utility available at

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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

 

[Dave Peterson]

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.