ARRRRGGHHH! File Error: data may have been lost

arturner · December 2, 2003, 7:10am

I’m getting a message “File Error: data may have been lost” when opening the excel file that one of our users has created

Does anyone know if there is any way of recovering the file from this error, debugging software etc??

Any help will be greately appreciated.

Thanks
Andrew Turner

Laurence · December 2, 2003, 4:53pm

Dear Andrew,

Sorry for the problem.

Do you know the version of Excel file, Excel97, Excel2000,ExcelXP or Excel2003?

You can try the newest fix.

Aspose.Cells for .NET (Download | NuGet)

And if the problem still exists, could you send the excel file to me? I will investigate it.

arturner · December 3, 2003, 1:23am

Hi mate,

The file was written in Excel '97, but I have 2K and it does the same in that too.

I may have found a program that can fix the problem but I will need to install Office Xp first. If that doesn’t fix it I will send you the file.

Thankyou very much

Kind Regards
Andy

arturner · December 3, 2003, 6:15am

Thanks for your help, but I found some shareware here :

http://www.vbusers.com/commercial/Rebuild.asp

That rebuilt the file for me.

Regards
Andy

Laurence · December 3, 2003, 4:52pm

Dear Andy,

I am glad that you problem is solved.

Your information is also helpful to us. Thank you.