recover deleted file

[Guest]

Most of a file was accidentally deleted.
It was a very large file, so when the error was realized, it was cancelled.
Shouldn't the portion that was deleted have gone to the recycle bin?
Or by cancelling it in progress, did this stop this process?

 

[Guest]

You could have simply used Undo or closed the file without saving the changes
& all would (should) have been OK.

If you have closed the file your chances of recovering anything deleted from
it are pretty much non-existant. If the file is still open *and* you have
AutoRecover turned on *and* you have not saved you may be able to recover
from the autorecovery file, but that is 'iffy'.

Content deleted from a file (of any type) is _not_ sent to the Recycle Bin.
Files deleted using Windows Explorer, etc. are held in the RB until it is
emptied. Under some circumstances even deleted files can be recovered, but
individual pieces of content deleted from a file, no.

I'm a little confused by

What does this mean & what "process" are you referring to?

Regards |:>)

 

[Guest]

I am actually asking this question for another girl in our office.
1. I think she was in the file, made a change, and then went to close the
file. Instead having it save all changes, she deleted it.
2. The other possibility is that she was in file, Open, and was deleting
some old files, and accidentally selected that one.

The file contained all her 2005 invoices. It was a file with a template, if
that makes any difference. We are going to have our IT guy come in, in the
next week or 2 to see if he can restore that one file from our tape backup.

 

[Guest]

By the way, this is in Windows XP 2003 Commercial version.
None of us use Auto-save.

 

[Dave Peterson]

You may want to consider using Jan Karel Pieterse's addin called AutoSafe (note
spelling).

It doesn't overwrite the existing workbook when it saves. It saves to a user
selectable folder. And when it's done, it either deletes these backups (or puts
them in the recycle bin). And the user can always restore the backups from the
recycle bin.

http://www.jkp-ads.com/Download.htm
(look for AutoSafe.zip, not autosafeVBE.zip, for your purposes.)

Jan Karel's version will know if there was a crash and prompt you to open the
last version it saved.

 

[Guest]

Hi

I found a good product that could recover lost file (including temporary
files). I highly recommend it as I tried many products but this was the only
one who could
recover it.
http://www.active-undelete.com

Omdah

 

[Guest]

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