Lost document

[Charmsy66]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel Can anyone help???
I have been working on an excel (Office for Mac) spreadsheet for a week. I have been saving it on my work network which I access from home through 'Shared' on Finder. I finally finished it tonight and saved it but wanted to rename the file. Instead of doing 'Save As' I double clicked file name and re-entered text. However, I think I accidentally used a character which shouldn't be used in filenames "/" and when I clicked enter, the excel file icon and the contents of the document disappeared, to be replaced in the finder window by a black box icon which i believe is a 'Terminal Bash' window. The file is empty.
Does ANYONE know how I might recover the document? My job might depend on it!!!!

 

[John_McGhie_[MVP]]

If your job were to depend on it, you would roll back to your backup copy.
Because you're doing this for work, of COURSE you have a backup copy

If you saved anything to the network at work, your system administrator can
get the backup back for you: just call them. If the system administrator
does not have a backup running on your network, or can't get your file back
from it: well, the company is not going to exist for long so you should not
worry if you lose that job

In the meantime, there is a SMALL chance that when you added a forward slash
to the file name, the system actually created a subfolder within the outer
folder into which it may have saved the file.

Let's assume you have a file named "My Excel File Version 14.xlsx"

Let's assume you re-named it "My Excel File Version 14/Updated.xlsx

Then in the network you "might" (depending on how they have the network
shared folders set up) find a folder named "My Excel File Version 14"

In that folder, you might find a file named "Updated.xlsx"

It's a long shot

Go for the backup: it will be there, if your system administrator has the
slightest clue...

Cheers

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel Can
anyone help???
I have been working on an excel (Office for Mac) spreadsheet for a week. I
have been saving it on my work network which I access from home through
'Shared' on Finder. I finally finished it tonight and saved it but wanted to
rename the file. Instead of doing 'Save As' I double clicked file name and
re-entered text. However, I think I accidentally used a character which
shouldn't be used in filenames "/" and when I clicked enter, the excel file
icon and the contents of the document disappeared, to be replaced in the
finder window by a black box icon which i believe is a 'Terminal Bash' window.
The file is empty.
Does ANYONE know how I might recover the document? My job might depend on
it!!!!

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