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I have Windows excel on my MacBook Pro. I accidentally saved one Excel file overtop another excel file. Is there anyway to recover the earlier file (the one I just saved over)?

kenorb
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Greg McF.
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When data is overwritten, you write some cases iover the same file allocation place, so you are unavailable to recover that data because it changes, in other cases you data is saved in non contiguous place so you are avaliable to recover if it lost with many Data Recovery Software as PhotoRec avaliable to OSX too.

Usualy Office Software works in second way.

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Francisco Tapia
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The original file is definitely lost, unless Time Machine managed to make a copy. However, you may want to check the autosave folder at ~\Library\Application Support\Microsoft\Office\Office 2011 AutoRecovery for the old file. Most probably this won't help though, since Excel should have saved the new file contents there as well.

Dmitry Grigoryev
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