I know better, but i forgot to do a "Save As" before making changes to an
open attachment. It was 4 hours of work on an Excel spreadsheet that I need
to find. I've looked in temp files everywhere. Can anyone tell me where it
saves these files? Or if it does?

It's gone. You must do a Save As when composing and an occasional Save to
keep changes.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"JLY" wrote in message
...
I know better, but i forgot to do a "Save As" before making changes to an
open attachment. It was 4 hours of work on an Excel spreadsheet that I
need
to find. I've looked in temp files everywhere. Can anyone tell me where
it
saves these files? Or if it does?

(cross-post added to Excel)
"JLY" wrote in message
...
I know better, but i forgot to do a "Save As" before making changes to an
open attachment. It was 4 hours of work on an Excel spreadsheet that I need
to find. I've looked in temp files everywhere.

Can anyone tell me where it saves these files? Or if it does?


In fact, it depends on whether you closed the message window
before closing the Excel document window. In that case OE
would not be able to delete the file in the TIF it creates for Excel to use.

BTW you should be asking this in an Excel newsgroup.
Perhaps there is an Undo feature in that product?
Then, provided you haven't done anything else with Excel
there might be a copy of your work available that way.

Cross-posting to an Excel NG for convenience.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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Hi,

I'm not sure but try this:

Your user name\Apps\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\...

I would post this question to a Windows or IE newgroup, because this is not
an Excel issue.

--
Thanks,
Shane Devenshire


"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:

(cross-post added to Excel)
"JLY" wrote in message
...
I know better, but i forgot to do a "Save As" before making changes to an
open attachment. It was 4 hours of work on an Excel spreadsheet that I need
to find. I've looked in temp files everywhere.

Can anyone tell me where it saves these files? Or if it does?


In fact, it depends on whether you closed the message window
before closing the Excel document window. In that case OE
would not be able to delete the file in the TIF it creates for Excel to use.

BTW you should be asking this in an Excel newsgroup.
Perhaps there is an Undo feature in that product?
Then, provided you haven't done anything else with Excel
there might be a copy of your work available that way.

Cross-posting to an Excel NG for convenience.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
---

"ShaneDevenshire" wrote in message
...

I would post this question to a Windows or IE newgroup, because this is not
an Excel issue.


The OE NG was correct. Our answer is that normally there is no way
to recover a spreadsheet which was worked on via an OE attachment.

I'm asking on OP's behalf if there is an undo feature in Excel
and if its implementation would provide any post-session recovery?


Robert
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"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:

(cross-post added to Excel)
"JLY" wrote in message
...
I know better, but i forgot to do a "Save As" before making changes to an
open attachment. It was 4 hours of work on an Excel spreadsheet that I need
to find. I've looked in temp files everywhere.

Can anyone tell me where it saves these files? Or if it does?


In fact, it depends on whether you closed the message window
before closing the Excel document window. In that case OE
would not be able to delete the file in the TIF it creates for Excel to use.

BTW you should be asking this in an Excel newsgroup.
Perhaps there is an Undo feature in that product?
Then, provided you haven't done anything else with Excel
there might be a copy of your work available that way.

Cross-posting to an Excel NG for convenience.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
---

The updated document was saved to the IE Temporary Internet Files (TIF).
That's where OE saves a temporary copy of attachments when you open them
from within OE. OE then will try to delete the file in the TIF when you
move to another OE message.

You cannot update an attachment within a OE message. You need to save
the attachment and then open it, or if you open it from within OE, you
need to use the File, Save As option in the application to save the
updates to some place other than the TIF.

There is SLIGHT chance that the updated attachment is still in the TIF.
For that to be the case, you must have closed the OE message Before you
lasted saved the updates.

Any attachments, if they are still there, will Not show if you look at
the TIF from IE or the Windows Explorer normally. You will be able to
see them if you use Start, Run and enter the command
C:\Documents and Settings\XXXX\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\
where XXXX is the Windows user. This assumes that you have not moved
the TIF. You can check the actual location by looking in IE at Tools,
Internet Options, General, Temporary Internet Files, Settings. The
\Content.IE5\ at the end is import or else you won't be able to see all
the files. You should see 4 folders with names such as A1B2C3D4.
You'll need to look in each folder for the missing files. The Search
function won't work.

An alternate access method is to open a Command Prompt window and use
"DOS" commands to locate and copy the file elsewhere. If you start at
the folder above the TIF and use the command
DIR /A /S *.XLS
it will indicate if the file is still there. You'll need to use a COPY
command to copy the file elsewhere. This will be cumbersome because of
the peculiar folder names.


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"JLY" wrote in message
...
I know better, but i forgot to do a "Save As" before making changes to
an
open attachment. It was 4 hours of work on an Excel spreadsheet that I
need
to find. I've looked in temp files everywhere. Can anyone tell me
where it
saves these files? Or if it does?