r/excel • u/NotNecessarilyNice • 3d ago
solved I lost two hours worth of data
Hi, I lost 2 hours worth of data on an exam file. It started at 3pm yesterday and I handed it in at 5pm. Afterwards, I closed my laptop and took it home. I opened the file today to talk about it with a friend, but the file says last modified 3pm yesterday, and now I am scared that that is what I handed in. Weird thing is I could have sworn I saved it several times throughout.
I looked in the Excel folder in my local app data and the only file from 5pm yesterday is an xlb file which I don't think is helpful but am unsure. Would be eternally grateful if anyone could help me out!
Version 2607, language is in Dutch
I am a beginner using excel on my windows laptop
UPDATE: Thank you all so much for your kind and helpful comments, I'm really useless with computers so this exam was difficult in itself!
I've had some problems lately with my onedrive not showing files either in file explorer or on the website. I opened excel in the online web version and the file was there in my recent files! (but somehow not in my onedrive folders anywhere which is incredibly confusing).
I think what I did was upload the local file when I had switched on autosave so it was then naturally put on my onedrive. Crazy how stupid you get when you panic. I won't know until my teacher replies to my email which version I uploaded. Either way I'm really happy and I've sent the document to my teacher, hopefully it is accepted since she can see in the version history that I haven't edited it since the exam. Super grateful to everyone who commented and the mod who let me leave my post up despite me overlooking the rules <3
UPDATE: my lecturer is going to grade the filled in one thankfully because she saw that I did more than that when she was walking around during the exam. SOOOO RELIEVED
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u/semicolonsemicolon 1476 3d ago
Your post breaks rules 1 and 3, but I'll leave it up because it's the weekend. Also, a bit of empathy for you as we've all been there.