I lost a file I was working on after I tried to open another file with the
same program. I was working on genetic report calculations in microsoft
excel- I have been for a while now, but last night I made alot of progress on
it. I saved it numerous times last night (I either saved it with the same
file name that I already had it as on my computer, or I saved it with the
usual attach (1) at the end). I left it minimized on my computer overnight
and
today I maximized it and my work was still there- everything was fine. Then,
I tried to open a link that would take me to another excel spreadsheet. My
computer got stuck loading the file. I tried to close the loading file but
couldnt, so
I tried to shut it with task manager. On the task manager it showed 3
different excel files or programs that were not responding. I tried to shut
down all of them, because I knew that I saved the file I had been working on.
However, the task manager wasnt closing them. So I held the power button on
the computer until it finally shut down (I have down this before when things
like this happened). When I restarted the computer I couldnt find the file
anywhere. I did a search and I found the shortcut for it but it wouldnt open
anything - it asked if
I wanted to fix the shortcut to another file that was similar or delete it.
I choose to fix it, and it took me to the old version of the file without all
of the progress I made last night. I guess I somehow corrupted the file. I
feel like
I read all the treads and i couldnt find anything truly related to my
problem. Sorry this is so long, Can anyone help me please.
Thanks
"ready for the bridge"
IcU812 wrote:
> I lost a file I was working on after I tried to open another file with the
> same program. I was working on genetic report calculations in microsoft
> excel- I have been for a while now, but last night I made alot of progress on
> it. I saved it numerous times last night (I either saved it with the same
> file name that I already had it as on my computer, or I saved it with the
> usual attach (1) at the end). I left it minimized on my computer overnight
> and
> today I maximized it and my work was still there- everything was fine. Then,
> I tried to open a link that would take me to another excel spreadsheet. My
> computer got stuck loading the file. I tried to close the loading file but
> couldnt, so
> I tried to shut it with task manager. On the task manager it showed 3
> different excel files or programs that were not responding. I tried to shut
> down all of them, because I knew that I saved the file I had been working on.
> However, the task manager wasnt closing them. So I held the power button on
> the computer until it finally shut down (I have down this before when things
> like this happened). When I restarted the computer I couldnt find the file
> anywhere. I did a search and I found the shortcut for it but it wouldnt open
> anything - it asked if
> I wanted to fix the shortcut to another file that was similar or delete it.
> I choose to fix it, and it took me to the old version of the file without all
> of the progress I made last night. I guess I somehow corrupted the file. I
> feel like
> I read all the treads and i couldnt find anything truly related to my
> problem. Sorry this is so long, Can anyone help me please.
> Thanks
> "ready for the bridge"
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These utilities may be able to recover the files, also look in your
Temp folder
