Hi
I have seemingly lost a file.
I opened a file from a password protected winzip, using the winzip program for OS X. I changed the name and saved it. Continued working on it all day and saved it again before closing it. I did not pay attention to which folder it was in as I thought I had opened an already extracted version of the spreadsheet.
I now cannot find the file in the recent items on Excel or in files modified today using Finder. I ran a command to ensure I could see hidden files, relaunched Finder and ran the search for the filename, to no avail.
When I try to save another file I have opened from winzip in excel, the suggested location, which Excel helpfully tells me has been used before is wzQL.8t0UHS which I assume is a cache. I am assuming that because Excel allowed me to save it and to x out of the document, that it is saved somewhere otherwise it would have thrown an error. When I try to save this new excel file in the wzQl.8t0UHS folder with the same name as the file I am desperately trying to get hold of, it tells me that there is already a file by that name in the folder. But when I try to browse to that folder using the path below, I cannot get to it. When I browse to the folder below using Finder, it is the only folder in the parent that has system only permissions with no user access.
computername:~ User$ find ~/ -name "wzQL.8t0UHS"
find: /Users/User//Library/Saved Application State/com.adobe.flashplayer.installmanager.savedState: Permission denied
I really don't want to stay up all night working
I would be so grateful if one of you knew how I could retrieve this file.
Thank you
I have seemingly lost a file.
I opened a file from a password protected winzip, using the winzip program for OS X. I changed the name and saved it. Continued working on it all day and saved it again before closing it. I did not pay attention to which folder it was in as I thought I had opened an already extracted version of the spreadsheet.
I now cannot find the file in the recent items on Excel or in files modified today using Finder. I ran a command to ensure I could see hidden files, relaunched Finder and ran the search for the filename, to no avail.
When I try to save another file I have opened from winzip in excel, the suggested location, which Excel helpfully tells me has been used before is wzQL.8t0UHS which I assume is a cache. I am assuming that because Excel allowed me to save it and to x out of the document, that it is saved somewhere otherwise it would have thrown an error. When I try to save this new excel file in the wzQl.8t0UHS folder with the same name as the file I am desperately trying to get hold of, it tells me that there is already a file by that name in the folder. But when I try to browse to that folder using the path below, I cannot get to it. When I browse to the folder below using Finder, it is the only folder in the parent that has system only permissions with no user access.
computername:~ User$ find ~/ -name "wzQL.8t0UHS"
find: /Users/User//Library/Saved Application State/com.adobe.flashplayer.installmanager.savedState: Permission denied
I really don't want to stay up all night working
I would be so grateful if one of you knew how I could retrieve this file.Thank you
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