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Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / April 2007HELP - LOST FILE!!
A very basic question I know, but new to the world of Macs! Have inadvertently saved over a file in excel using 'save as' so have now lost the original spreadsheet. Can anyone advise how to recover the original file? Working on new Imac and on Excel 2004 for Mac - and whilst have used excel spreadsheets a lot, have not done so on Macs. Any help much appreciated (& desperately needed!!) Thanks Hi In general (Mac and PC) you would Save As to save the file with a *new* name. However if you save the file with the same name and when prompted about whether or not you want to replace the existing file you choose the Replace option, then the original file is overwritten. It's entirely possible that some or all of the original file is located in bits a pieces on your hard drive. A lot of time and money would be required to find them and put them back together. Have you searched your hard drive for files that might be older using file names that you may have used in the past? Maybe you have an old copy somewhere you've forgotten about? To look, from the desktop use Apple+F from the keyboard. -Jim Gordon Mac MVP Quoting from "rplumpton@optusnet.com.au" <rplumpton@optusnet.com.au>, in article 1177814442.554916.58770@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com, on [DATE: > A very basic question I know, but new to the world of Macs! > Have inadvertently saved over a file in excel using 'save as' so have [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Any help much appreciated (& desperately needed!!) > Thanks  SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVPs are not Microsoft Employees MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ May I suggest that you purchase Retrospect and set it up to automatically back up each day, say at 10 pm? You can back up to your internal hard drive or better yet an external Firewire drive. That way if you do this again (we all have) you can simply restore from your back up. On 4/28/07 8:18 PM, in article C25986D7.19990%goldkey74@WarmerThanWarmMail.com, "Jim Gordon MVP" <goldkey74@WarmerThanWarmMail.com> wrote: > Hi > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >> Any help much appreciated (& desperately needed!!) >> Thanks |
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