Lost xls file

[Guest]

I worked on a Excel file in Outlook and closed it, saved the changes at the
prompt and later went looking for it. I cannot find it. I believe it went
into a "OLK" folder. I have tried all manner of searches and can only locate
5 xls files on my whole HD and I easily have 100+.
What am I doing wrong?

Rich

 

[Dave Peterson]

When you open any attachment in Outlook, Outlook needs a location to store the
file--it has to unencode the file into its original format.

Outlook uses the Temporary Internet File folder to hold those files.

You may want to start saving them to your favorite location (rightclick on the
attachment to start this process). Then go to that favorite location and just
open that file from there.

Alternatively, you could open the attachment, but before you do anything, do a
File|SaveAs and point at that favorite location.

If you reopen that attachment in Outlook, you may get lucky and have Outlook
store it in the same location. If it does do that, you may get unlucky in that
this newly saved file could overwrite any changes you've made.

I do this (I'm not sure if it's the easiest way, but it works for me):

Open Internet Explorer
Tools|Internet Options|General Tab
In MSIE 7.0 (just available from MS), I click on the settings button under the
"Browsing History" section.
Then I click on View Files

Then I make sure I'm looking at Details (View|details)
And make sure I can see the last updated date (View|Choose Details)

Then I sort by that date (or by type or by name or by anything that will help me
find the file).

Then I rightclick|copy
and windows explorer, go to that favorite folder and rightclick paste.

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If you wait too long to do this, the file could be overwritten or worse
deleted. (Windows has a limit of how much space will be used for this stuff.)

 

[Guest]

Also, if you have left the file within the outlook message whilst working on
it, then you not only have to save at the Excel prompt, but when you close
the message in outlook, you also need to save the message, else all your
Excel edits will be lost.

 

[Guest]

Dave:
While this was most enlightening, I was unable to find the Excel file. I was
unable to find any Excel files and since I had repeated the miscue in order
to find the destination there should have been several Excel files.

Rich

 

[Dave Peterson]

Open up another attachment.

Put
=CELL("filename",A1)
in any unused cell

Maybe that'll help you find the folder.

 

[Don Guillett]

try a windons search for the file or *.xls

 

[Bruce Sinclair]

try a windons search for the file or *.xls

... Don't suppose you have the most recently used files list available from
XL ? ... and you haven't opened more than the number that you have set ?