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I opened, edited and saved a file in Excel several times last week without issue. This included adding a new sheet, then editing it over several days.
The file is in my work account's OneDrive.
Today I opened that same file to find that all my recent work (the whole sheet) has vanished; it seems to now be a version from 2 months ago, according to the last saved date. So naturally there is nothing in version history, and I cannot find any way to check for unsaved recent changes, but in any case, it was saved and opened again several times last week without issue, so I wouldn't expect unsaved recent changes to contain anything except perhaps the most recent edit.
How is this even possible!! Is there any way to recover the many hours of work I have lost?
My device is Windows 11, I have a personal account and a work account on the machine (and I have checked; it wasn't saved in my personal OneDrive).
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Same just happened to me. I lost a whole month's worth of work. Thank you very much, OneDrive! This is what I pay monthly for?!?!! To have my files lost?!?!?! I will be going back to Google. You really screwed me over, Microsoft, and I have no recourse!
Hello dear support,
I have windows 10 OS, I did follow all the 4 steps, mentioned above. My spread sheet was not there. The recycle bin was empty.
Where is my spread sheet?
Several days work was in it.
I know I saved it at 2:30 PM PST, on 1/14/24, today, but all the spread sheets files disappeared, and closed after I left my system to go grab a glass of water from kitchen, and I know I had saved it before the files were automatically closed. Once I was back, all 5-6 spread sheets were all closed.
How can I get that back?
Sam Abdollahi 425-229-8774 email ******@hotmail.com . Please reply to another email . ******@gmail.com
Thank you
There is nothing there. I have lost three worksheets with information from the last three years. Just surprised and frustrated that this occurred to a file that is supposed to be safe on OneDrive.
Is there any solution???
SAME HERE!! Happened just now
Support: There has been an entire thread under your responses. Is there a reason that you aren’t helping?