File cut in "File Open" (Excel)

[Gone]

From Excel's "File Open" dialog box, I cut the latest version of a file to
replace a previous version in a different folder. The previous version
remained and the latest version was deleted and it's not in the Recycle Bin
or anyplace else. Is this a bug? Windows XP Home SP2

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

From Excel's "File Open" dialog box, I cut the latest version of a file to
replace a previous version in a different folder. The previous version
remained and the latest version was deleted and it's not in the Recycle
Bin
or anyplace else. Is this a bug? Windows XP Home SP2

This is by design - it's not a bug. "Cut" does not place a file
into the Recycle Bin - it puts it into the Clipboard.

 

[Alan]

Hi Pegasus,

I think Gone means that he/she tried replacing an Excel file of the same
name by cutting it from one folder and overwriting an Excel file of the same
name in a second folder.

Then when Gone opened up what was expected to be the newer version of the
Excel file in the target folder, all that was there was the contents of the
original Excel file, and the newer revised Excel file in the first folder no
longer existed.

Gone, for what it's worth, I generally try to never cut a file to put it in
a second folder. I always Copy the file to the second folder and once I'm
sure it's there and has the content that I expect, I go back to the first
folder and delete the file.

I realize that this is not going to help you now, unfortunately.

Alan