My wife's lost an Excel spreadsheet named "finances." We've searched all through Explorer; no luck. I can't find it on the recent documents, recycle bin, or any other file type named "finances." The only thing I can find is the shortcut to the original Excel sheet. When you try to open it, it says it can't find the file. I even did 2 System Restores going back almost a month (she used it 5 days ago), and nothing works. Is there any other way to relocate a file like this?
2006-10-06 16:14:48 · 8 answers · asked by justabaldguy 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
If by chance it may have been deleted, there are free programs that you can download off of the internet that can scan your hard drive to find it.
The beauty of solid state memory is that nothing is ever truely deleted off of the hard drive unless it's written over, which is often not the case.
Look for a free program called Handy Recovery. It worked for me, and many others!
Good luck, I wouldn't wanna lose my finance spreadsheets... I'm a finance major, and it seems like my life depends on them right now! lol
2006-10-06 16:18:20 · answer #1 · answered by MattMan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it was deleted it will go in the recycle bin first before being completely deleted. Just double click the recycle bin and it will open up. Also if you have more than one drive you may be searching on the wrong drive.
2006-10-06 16:36:30 · answer #2 · answered by sdh0407 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do a wildcard search for all Excel spreadsheets on your system. To do that, place an asterisk before the extension. For example. *xls
Go to Start>Search>*xls
2006-10-06 16:26:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can feel your pain.
If you are sure you ran a thorough search, I can't imagine what your wife did.
In WinXP, there is an option to search for a file by date modified. Have you searched for files modified within the last two weeks?
There is a lesson here. Please buy a flashdrive. They are really low in price now. Keep backups of anything you don't care to recreate.
2006-10-06 17:19:22 · answer #4 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-15 22:29:37 · answer #5 · answered by shade 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do a system search for files with an xls extension, this will show all Excel files
2006-10-06 16:16:47 · answer #6 · answered by metallhd62 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hit your file button your last saved projects should still be on their.
2006-10-06 16:21:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
mmm, do a search my ding the following click on START, then click SEARCH
2006-10-06 16:16:54 · answer #8 · answered by ! 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋