how to access deleted or lost excel files on xp?

[property manager]

Recently my computer contracted a rather large virus that caused about a day
and a half of downtime. Everything seemed ok and normal once I debugged the
computer but I recently noticed that about 12 spreadsheets in my computer
have been lost. These are all the same title, just different dated versions.
I still see them as saved in the files, but when I try to open them I get
the following message-

"FILE NAME" cannot be found. Check the spelling of the name of the file, and
verify that the file location is correct.

Nothing has changed and it wasn't saved elsewhere. How can I gain access to
these files?

 

[Gord Dibben]

If you open Excel first then go through File>Open will the files open OK?

If not.....................

Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar

1) Start>Run "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)>OK.
2) Start>Run "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)>OK.

See the space between exe and /regserver

You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.

In that case Start>Run "C:\yourpath\excel.exe" /regserver(quotes
required)>OK.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:12:01 -0700, property manager <property

 

[ecoverstreet]

Hi Gord,

I just picked up on this entry for excel and thought it would help me too,
but on viewing the question it appears not to be the case.

My problem is that earlier this morning i decided to take a break away from
the PC and during the time I was away, MS had completed an update and
switched down the PC.

Just before this I was working on two documents that had a substantial
amount of data in them and, because they were new documents I had not even
named them.

Can these be retrieved like word documents, by using one of the temporary
store points?

I opened excel and it does not react the same as word by showing you the
dialog box on the left with the files that had not been closed, so I am not
sure how to recover these.

Tried search *xls to find all files created over the last week and, it does
not show up there. Can i recover them from somewhere else?

Thanks in advance for your help.