Excel Idiocy

[Sith_Lords]

Right, i was unsure wether to post this in this forum, or the applications forum. So i posted in both.

Basically my mother decided to cleverly save the expenditure for the year over the file for the income for the year. (Not very clever!) And she hasn't backed up the file anywhere. Is there any way to find the old file? Or has she screwed up completely?

[Lakeuk]

It'll be lost now

[bluesatin]

If she's overwritted the file It's probably un-recoverable

If the file was deleted then there is a chance you might be able to get it back

But from what you've said it sounds like an overwritting and I don't think there is a way to get it back without stupidly expensive hardware :3

[max99]

There's always a small possibility that it still exist as a temp file, so search the temp folders for any file with a similar date and size to the original file.