Lost File Please help

[Phil]

I opened an Excel attachment in an email did some work on it clicked on
the save button and closed it. Now I can't find the file with the
changes. Where did it go? I think I should have did a save as to a
location and have now lost several hours of work. I've done searches,
looked in temp directories. Is there any hope of finding it?
Phil

 

[ebloch]

It should have replaced the original "Excel attachment" UNLESS it was NOT a
workbook with the appropriate file extension for your Excel version. In that
case it would have the same name but an Excel workbook extension.

A good free and fast "Search Everything" is available from
http://www.voidtools.com/

Using that program just enter the "Excel attachment" name WITHOUT the
extension and see what you get.

Eric

 

[Don Guillett]

Assuming you did a windows search for .xls or your extension then try
opening again from the email>save>now LOOK where windows is putting it.

 

[Phil]

It should have replaced the original "Excel attachment" UNLESS it was NOT a
workbook with the appropriate file extension for your Excel version. In that
case it would have the same name but an Excel workbook extension.

A good free and fast "Search Everything" is available from
http://www.voidtools.com/

Using that program just enter the "Excel attachment" name WITHOUT the
extension and see what you get.

Eric

Thanks for the program, I've been looking for good one to use on my new
laptop that has Vista loaded on it which is a pain to use for file
management, but it couldn't find the missing file (on my desktop which
has XP)I guess it gone.
Phil