Excel Files lost on automatic restart

mullie · 04-19-2006

Help please.

I spent hours working on some spreadsheets - left my desk for only a few minutes and XP performed an update and automatic restart! It seems as if I have lost the files I was working on as I had not at that point saved them, nor is my excel set up to always create a back up (since rectified).

Am I right in assuming the data is lost forever or is there some clever way of restoring my desktop?

Iain.

terror · 04-19-2006

Hi mullie
I don't think u can retrieve it unless u have saved it before u worked on it. While waiting for the pros to come, u might as well start ur work.

mullie · 04-19-2006

Hi - thanks for that. I kinda thought this was the case but it just seemed possible that, because XP carried out the restart, it would automatically save the open applications somewhere.

Thanks anyway.

04-19-2006	#1
mullie New Poster Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 2	Excel Files lost on automatic restart Help please. I spent hours working on some spreadsheets - left my desk for only a few minutes and XP performed an update and automatic restart! It seems as if I have lost the files I was working on as I had not at that point saved them, nor is my excel set up to always create a back up (since rectified). Am I right in assuming the data is lost forever or is there some clever way of restoring my desktop? Iain.

04-19-2006	#2
terror Silver Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: malaysia Posts: 183 PC Experience: PC Illiterate	Hi mullie I don't think u can retrieve it unless u have saved it before u worked on it. While waiting for the pros to come, u might as well start ur work. __________________

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