Where do I find a "saved" Excel attachment after exiting both Out.

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I received an excel spreadsheet in an email and updated it over several days
frequently "saving" it. I exited Excel, later restarted it, and when I tried
to reopen the file, it was no where to be found. I looked in the Excel
autosave and default file locations. Are there any other places where I
could look?
 
If you saved changes in the e-mail message too, try opening the attachment
in the original e-mail and see if your changes are there. If not it's
hopefully in your Temp folder. Easiest way to find it is probably to use
Windows Search to find all .XLS files in your file system. You can narrow
it down by specifying in the search that you only want files modified in the
last week.

Tip: Once you locate it, move it to My Documents or some other folder you
can access readily.
 
Do you still have the email with the Excel spreadsheet? What do you see if you open it? Are your changes showing? If yes, then use File->Save As and save it somewhere you can easily access it. Otherwise, it is in the Outlook temp folder and may not have your changes showing.

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After furious head scratching, mcampeau asked:

| I received an excel spreadsheet in an email and updated it over
| several days frequently "saving" it. I exited Excel, later restarted
| it, and when I tried to reopen the file, it was no where to be found.
| I looked in the Excel autosave and default file locations. Are there
| any other places where I could look?
 
I checked the email attachment and the changes are not there. When I
originally exited the message, I probably did not save the file in response
to the Outlook prompt thinking that it was saved by Excel in my default file
location. Does this mean all my work is gone, because I did not save twice -
once in Excel and again in Outlook?
 
yes, some of the changes are most likely gone. The only chance you'll have
to recover some or all of the data is if there are multiple copies of the
attachment in the temp folder.
 
mcampeau said:
I received an excel spreadsheet in an email and updated it over
several days frequently "saving" it. I exited Excel, later restarted
it, and when I tried to reopen the file, it was no where to be found.
I looked in the Excel autosave and default file locations. Are there
any other places where I could look?
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If you're lucky, it will still be in the Outlook Secure Temp Folder.
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/securetemp.htm
 
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