Excel Dat Gone After Saving; Where is AutoRecovery folder

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Excel Dat Gone After Saving; Where is AutoRecovery folder

Hello,

I was up until 3:00 am working on an excel file. I repeatedly saved manually because Autosave is grayed out. I am a hyper-manual saver since I have lost additions to files since the auto save button has been greyed out.

Unfortunately, I opened it and literally everything is gone. All of it is gone. Everything.

I cannot find my Auto Recovery folder. I went to time machine and the most recent file is 6:00 pm last night.

Is there any hope? This project needs to be completed in about 6 hours and everything is gone.

thanks.

Mac Pro

Posted on Oct 15, 2021 1:14 PM

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Answer 1

SnickZ.

Community Specialist

Oct 16, 2021 1:13 PM in response to MacUser1628

Hey there, MacUser1628. Thanks for getting in touch.

It sounds like you're having some trouble locating a saved file from the Excel app. We can help.

You mentioned that you had been saving the file manually, if you use Finder to open up the directory you were manually saving to, is there anything there? If not, you can also check your Desktop and Trash and see if the file is there instead. If you're still not seeing the file anywhere else, double-check that you weren't saving it to removable media that might no longer be inserted. IF you're not familiar with Finder, you can use this article to Get to know the Finder on your Mac.

If the above doesn't help, you can see How to contact an app developer to reach out for specific help with the third-party app.

Hope that helps!

Take care.

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Old Toad

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Oct 16, 2021 2:41 PM in response to MacUser1628

Download and run the shareware app Find Any File to search for your Excel file by name.

1 - Name contains XXXX

FAF can search areas that Spotlight can't like invisible folders, system folders and packages.

If that fails you can try searching for all files with the Excel extension.

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Excel Dat Gone After Saving; Where is AutoRecovery folder

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