lost file! help!!

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while trying to save a file, the shared drive went down and now i lost the file completely. however, i did find a file called 6768F200 with no file extension in its place and about the right timestamp. could this be some sort of backup for the file?? i tried opening with excel and received a message that the file format is not valid. i tried appending .xls and that did not work either. is my file lost forever? any help is much appreciated!! thanks!!
 
When you save a file, excel will save it as a temporary file (8 characters, no
extension). Then if that save is successful, excel will delete the original and
rename this funny named file to the original's name.

You see the results when something interferes with this process.

A couple of things that get pointed at are antivirus software and network
problems (hardware or permissions).

Maybe you could disable the antivirus software (temporarily) to see if that
helped.

If the problem goes away, then visit your local AV site and see if they have
updates. If it doesn't, I'd think I'd try to get my IT department more
involved. (well, unless you're already the IT department!)
 
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