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Jan Hálek 1 Reputation point
2021-04-12T15:01:00.403+00:00

Hi guys, a few days ago i accidentaly recovered about a week old version of my excell sheet which is being saved on my one drive.
Since the old version that has been recovered got somehow saved, i cant get hold of the most actual version (the one just before the accident.
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for some reason, there are no restorabe versions inbetween the version right now (10th of april - when the incident happened) and the old version (april 2nd) that got saved instead of the actual actual version that got lost)

the file should be getting saved every 3 minutes to this file:
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but i cant see the files that got saved before this one.

the fact that its being saved there every 3 minutes meant that a newer version of the file should have been saved there at some point.

is ther any way of recovering the file?
i tryed the windows recovery tool but it didnt run and said that there is an error:
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pleace help.

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  1. Emily Hua-MSFT 27,551 Reputation points
    2021-04-13T09:33:38.343+00:00

    @Jan Hálek

    > i tryed the windows recovery tool but it didnt run and said that there is an error

    Here is the article "Recover lost files on Windows 10" about Windows Recovery Tool, you could refer it to have a check.

    > a few days ago i accidentaly recovered about a week old version of my excell sheet which is being saved on my one drive.

    Did you roll back to earlier version by clicking one version from OneDrive Version History as your image shown?

    Please backup the file first, then open the Excel file, go to File>Info, click the Version History to have a check.
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    Besides, you may refer to the answer of Jan Karel Pieterse in this thread "How to recover a previous version of an excel spreadsheet after saving it".

    Any updates, please let me know.

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