Workbook was corrupted

[roc_ent]

Hello, I was working away on a workbook that I had created a few weeks ago to track sales of a fundraiser. When I went to save it, the screen came all white and it had yellow ! on it in several places. I look at the top of my screen and it said program not responding, so I left it alone for a while longer.

Then, my screen came back to normal, but when I went to open the workbook, and it was not listed in the folder that it was originally saved in.

I then opened Excel and click on the latest file that have been used (my workbook was listed there) and I received an error message that the file does not exist, or it may have been renamed or deleted.

I checked in my deleted files and nothing is there. Is there "any" way of getting this file back, as it holds all the information for the fundraiser?

 

[Special-K99]

Use the backup copy you made.

 

[daverunt]

I wouldn't hold out too much hope but have a look at this and see if it helps.

http://office-recovery.com/excel.asp

 

[roc_ent]

that is the sad part. I had worked on this book for weeks now, then opened it to work on it again last night. When every thing happened, the original book is also gone. There is no Excel file in that folder, not in the recycle bin, and when I do a search for it there are no files with that name.

 

[roc_ent]

I wouldn't hold out too much hope but have a look at this and see if it helps.

http://office-recovery.com/excel.asp

Thanks I'll look into that right now

 

[Special-K99]

You should always make a backup.
Either copy the file once you've finished working on it or give it a version number if you want incremental backups, e.g. Fundraiser 1.00.xlsx, Fundraiser 1.01.xlsx, Fundraiser 2.00.xlsx etc
That way at least you can salvage something if not the complete file.

And don't backup to the same media, ie the same hard drive, if you backed up to a cheap USB stick you'd probably have the file by now.

 

[roc_ent]

Yes I agree about the backups, however even the original file which I opened from where it was saved is gone, but still trying to find it somewhere. I don't think (although I'm not an expert) it can vanish just like that. Or at least I hope it can't.