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Emergency- need to restore Excel spreadsheet from auto backups

Throckmorton

Throckmorton

Lifer
Help! I know this belongs in Software but I need an answer ASAP, because I don't know if the backups get deleted after time passes or what.

I meant to close one spreadsheet I had open in Excel but of course by default it opens all spreadsheets in one instance of the program. I instinctively clicked "No" when it asked if I wanted to save, and I lost some work. I know it automatically saves every few minutes because it gives you a list of documents to restore if the program crashes. How do I get to that list?
 
Unfortunately, when you click "No" to the prompt to save your open files, Excel and Word delete any temporary backup copies that were made of those files since you told the application that you don't want them any more.

If you haven't made too many changes to other files on your hard drive, you might get lucky and be able to recover the auto-save file with a file recovery tool like GetDataBack.

Most data recovery tools have a free version that will let you scan to see if the files are available, but you have to pay a small fee to get the full version that will actually restore the deleted files.
 
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