Recovering an Excel file

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ray6743

I am trying to open an Excel file from a 3.5 disk.

Situation: User 1 created and saved the file to the disk. Later, User 1
openned, updated and saved the file, again to the disk. User 2 openned,
updated and saved the file to disk. User 2 attempted to open the file a
third time but the file would not open. User 2 went to a different PC and
attempted to open the file but without success.

Excel attempts to open the file, the busy light on the PC indicates that the
PC is attempting to access the file. I receive an error message.

Is there a way to recover the file??
 
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Myrna Larson

Copy it to your hard drive, then try to open it from there. If that doesn't
work, the file is gone. Sorry.

You should never open from or save to a floppy. Put the file on the hard
drive, do your work, save it, then copy back to the floppy.
 
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Gord Dibben

ray

You have broken the first rule of working with removable media.

NEVER save to or open from a floppy directly!!!

Save to hard disk then copy to floppy.

Copy back to hard disk then open.

Floppies are for storage and transportation. Working directly to/from
will(not may, will) lead to corruption eventually.

You have probably corrupted the file but you could try to copy it to hard disk
then open it.

If that fails, look for a third-party application that may be able to recover
the file.

Gord Dibben Excel MVP
 
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