how to recover deleted excel file
murtuza112
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User level: Level 1 (4 points)How to recover a deleted Excel file
Posted on Oct 28, 2026 11:15 PM
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VikingOSX
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User level: Level 10 (131,878 points)Oct 29, 2026 4:20 AM in response to murtuza112
More details such as where the Excel file was located when deleted…
- Local drive
- Mounted drive including USB stick
- Network share (local)
- Cloud
- iCloud
- OneDrive
- Dropbox
- Google Drive
- Other
For local, use your Time Machine backup. For Apple iCloud, see Recover deleted files on iCloud.com - Apple Support.
After file deletion, macOS is a UNIX operating system and deleted files are immediately marked by the operating system so that their storage can be reclaimed and utilized for new storage requests. Chances are by the time you are reading this, that this has happened and the file is unrecoverable from local storage by any means. That is why you have a backup of your filesystem in the first place.
Rudegar
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User level: Level 10 (187,102 points)Oct 29, 2026 2:44 AM in response to murtuza112
ms like to save their files in their onedrive too, you can check there
otherwise you can get it back using timemachine if you use that
Back up your Mac with Time Machine - Apple Support
otherwise you can try various undelete tools
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murtuza112
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User level: Level 1 (4 points)Oct 28, 2026 11:17 PM in response to murtuza112
can anyone help me
Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256385043