Are autosaved versions of Excel files saved sep. on the hard drive?

A

alison

So, I am using my grilfriend's Mac iBook G4 while my PC gets repaired.
I was entering data into Excel for my Masters and accidently entered
new data into a couple of boxes with data already in them, wiping out
those numbers. I wasn't sure which ones I had changed, making all my
data suspect, and since I thought that I had just saved my info, I
figured the easiest thing to do would be to quit, hit 'don't save' and
then reopen, which I thought would bring up the file as it was before I
entered the incorrect data.

Except...

Turns out that I hadn't saved for a long time. I guess I got too caught
up in my work and a lot of time had passed. Anyway, autosave was on,
but since I shut the fiile myself, it didn't reopen to the latest saved
version.

My question is: When Excel autosaves, does it create a new file
somewhere, and, if so, does that file still exist soomewhere on the
hard drive (I know how to find it on the PC, but not a Mac).

Please help!

Cheers!

Jason
 
B

Bob Greenblatt

So, I am using my grilfriend's Mac iBook G4 while my PC gets repaired.
I was entering data into Excel for my Masters and accidently entered
new data into a couple of boxes with data already in them, wiping out
those numbers. I wasn't sure which ones I had changed, making all my
data suspect, and since I thought that I had just saved my info, I
figured the easiest thing to do would be to quit, hit 'don't save' and
then reopen, which I thought would bring up the file as it was before I
entered the incorrect data.

Except...

Turns out that I hadn't saved for a long time. I guess I got too caught
up in my work and a lot of time had passed. Anyway, autosave was on,
but since I shut the fiile myself, it didn't reopen to the latest saved
version.

My question is: When Excel autosaves, does it create a new file
somewhere, and, if so, does that file still exist soomewhere on the
hard drive (I know how to find it on the PC, but not a Mac).

Please help!

Cheers!

Jason
I'm afraid you are SOL. Excel's temporary files are deleted when Excel
closes.
 

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