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FelicityW

macrumors regular
Original poster
Apr 4, 2011
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1. I received an excel file via email.
2. I opened it, worked on it extensively, saved it under another name.
3. I worked on it more, spanning several days.
4. It wasn't behaving 100% (scroll didn't work consistently), so I saved it as yet another name and closed it.
5. It is gone. No sign of it anywhere.
6. I am trying very hard not to freak out and have judiciously avoided using '!'s even if that is what I am thinking.
7. I think/hope where it saved it to is the key, because I did a 'Save As' and only paid attention to the file name.
Thoughts?

I am on a 2013 MBP with 16GB RAM.
I am running Yosemite 10.10.1
Excel 2011 14.6.6

I have checked downloads, Finder, Excel recent and beyond, My Files, Desktop, My Documents.
 

maflynn

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May 3, 2009
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Did you use spotlight to try to find it within the Finder?
 

FelicityW

macrumors regular
Original poster
Apr 4, 2011
172
92
NY->CA->AZ->MI->AZ
Happy Day

A link to a couple of forum-suggested posts led me to 'Find Any File' on the App Store. I thought about the price for about a minute, but I knew the file had to be there, so I bought the app. Sure enough, it found it. Well worth the cost.

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Did you use spotlight to try to find it within the Finder?

Yes. I find Spotlight to be pretty lame. This guy explains it well: http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/

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BTW, the file was located in Microsoft Office Auto Recovery folder. I don't know why that is a folder that other search functions do not look in.
 

T'hain Esh Kelch

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Aug 5, 2001
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In Excel, open the file from the "Recently opened" menu. Hold down the command button and right click the header of the window, and select the folder the file is saved in.
 
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