I have accidentally deleted a Numbers spreadsheet. Is there any way to recover it?

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ilpchow Author

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I have accidentally deleted a Numbers spreadsheet. Is there any way to recover it?

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Posted on Apr 5, 2015 9:04 AM

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Answer 1

Yellowbox

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Apr 5, 2015 11:28 PM in response to ilpchow

Hi ilchow,

It sounds as though you deleted the sheet. Try these:

If the document is still open, Menu > Edit > Undo (repeatedly if necessary until you get back to what seems OK)

Menu > File > Revert To > Last Saved

Menu > File > Revert To > Last Opened

Menu > File > Revert To > Browse all Versions

Time Machine if you are running it

Did you email it to anyone? If so, there may be a copy in your Sent mailbox.

Good luck!

Regards,

Ian.

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ilpchow Author

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Apr 5, 2015 11:29 PM in response to Yellowbox

The undo function is masked off. All I can see is

a red exclamation mark for table 2 which is the one I need.

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Answer 3

ilpchow Author

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Apr 5, 2015 10:05 PM in response to John Galt

Thank you John. I saved it in desktop. When I tried to print, I found that there are 2 other tables which were not useful. So I thought I deleted the useless tables by clicking delete from the pull down menu of the sheet. But then the whole spreadsheet including all 3 tables were deleted. When I clicked the file saved in desktop, it was blank. It is not in trash. I hope I can recover it since I spent quite a long time on it.

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