Autosave not working - no files are there

Anonymous
2014-01-12T05:27:19+00:00

I use autosave and have it set for every time minutes. I had a workbook open and was inputting data for many hours. I saw the taskbar show it autosave many, many times until it crashed. When I reopened excel, it reverted back to the last user saved version which was several hours old. I searched for the autorecover files, but they are the same old file. When I tried opening one, I get the error that happeend when it crashed - it says 'Excel cannot complete the task with available resources. Choose less data or close other application" (this was the error when it crashed in the first place)

I have plenty or memory available on my computer

I really need this fixed. Autosave does me no good if I can't recover my files.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-01-12T17:19:34+00:00

    Hello,

    Let us refer to the following link ‘Recover an earlier version of an Office file’ and check if it helps:

    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/recover-an-earlier-version-of-an-office-file-HA010356735.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HP010354296

    As for the error message ‘'Excel cannot complete the task with available resources. Choose less data or close other application’, you may try the steps in the following article:

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2655178/en-us

    Note: The steps in the article also applies to Excel 2013.

    In case if that doesn’t help, do get back to us with the results so that we may assist you further.

    Thank you

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