Help!!

[benjo]

Ok, need some help urgently!

I have just been working on an attachment in an email - Accidentally shut it down without saving!!
Can I recover the work somehow? - it was an excel file!

Wouldn't mind but its taken me 2 hours!! :bang:

 

[Captain Mike]

Ok, need some help urgently!

I have just been working on an attachment in an email - Accidentally shut it down without saving!!
Can I recover the work somehow? - it was an excel file!

Wouldn't mind but its taken me 2 hours!! :bang:

open excel and a bar down the left with recovery options may appear?

if not then i dont know. how the fook can you click no when it says do you want to save

 

[jug]

when you open a mail attachment a copy is made in a temp folder, as you work on it excel would have autosaved.

which mail app you using?

 

[benjo]

open excel and a bar down the left with recovery options may appear?

if not then i dont know. how the fook can you click no when it says do you want to save

Had a god awful day with a non stop barrage of emails arriving, phones ringing, saucy texts to reply to, 20 workmen, b*ll*ckings in meetings etc.

To be honest I thought it was another email that i was responding to as I had 3 of them open at once - thanks for trying to help and I'm going to enable the autosave option from now on :bang:

Resigned myself to do it all again, thankfully was quicker second time round

Jug,
Using outlook, any good? Any info on this will be greatly studied as nearly went into melt down earlier

Cheers!

 

[Si]

Outlook uses a directory called OLKXX where XX is a random number. This is usually stored within your temp files under your user directory.

However even if you change your folder settings to view every file and folder, it won't appear. You need to use the command function to recover the file.

Go to Start Menu > Run
Type command

You should get up a black command prompt screen.

Type cd\
This will return you to C:\

Type cd docume~1\<USER>\locals~1\tempor~1
Replace <User> with your XP account name

Type dir
This will bring up a list of directories and files, hopefully one of them being OLKXX.

Type cd OLKXX
Replace XX with whatever number it's called.

Locate the file you were working on, should usually be called the same as what the original attachment was named as.

Type copy <file name>.<file extension> c:\
Replace <file name>.<file extension> with whatever your file is called
i.e. copy finance.xls c:\

This will copy the file to c:\ which when you return to windows, the file will be located in.

 

[benjo]

Cheers, I'll have to give it a go!!

 

[Savage]

the easiest way i do it is if you open the attachment again and you click save has you should be able to see where the computer saves it then just trace the path back to the file

 

[Ffoxy]

Outlook uses a directory called OLKXX where XX is a random number. This is usually stored within your temp files under your user directory.

However even if you change your folder settings to view every file and folder, it won't appear. You need to use the command function to recover the file.

Go to Start Menu > Run
Type command

You should get up a black command prompt screen.

Type cd
This will return you to C:

Type cd docume~1<USER>locals~1tempor~1
Replace <User> with your XP account name

Type dir
This will bring up a list of directories and files, hopefully one of them being OLKXX.

Type cd OLKXX
Replace XX with whatever number it's called.

Locate the file you were working on, should usually be called the same as what the original attachment was named as.

Type copy <file name>.<file extension> c:
Replace <file name>.<file extension> with whatever your file is called
i.e. copy finance.xls c:

This will copy the file to c: which when you return to windows, the file will be located in.

Extremely useful.... Cheers Si, Thanks applied!