Yes, there is a way to recover a deleted file on the Mac.
Enter Time Machine, scroll back from Today / Now to the last time the Mac was backed up before you deleted the file (up to an hour before you deleted it, if your Mac had been on for a while that session, or the previous time you used the computer if the file wasn’t backed up during that session), then locate the file on TM and and open it. If I remember correctly you can then save the file back to your computer for normal access, but if I’ve missed a step you might have to read the Help file to get that right, it’s a while since I've needed to do this. This assumes that you have set up Time Machine of course. If you haven’t then you should do so now, so that you are ready for the next time something like this happens. I also have a few very important documents backed up to iCloud (i.e. off site), and I do a manual backup every few months, or after any important changes, and I keep the manual backup disks in a small fireproof safe (about $200 at Bunnings if I remember correctly), but TM is my primary backup, it works well, it keeps backups for a long time back (how long depends on the size of your backup disk) and it is easy to recover files from it, even if you haven’t done so for a while and have forgotten how to. If you are keeping business records etc. you should use TM as your primary backup, because it backs up every hour (if the place catches fire unmount the backup disk and grab it and and run, and your backups will be no more than an hour old, and will be easy to restore on your replacement computer), and you should also make a daily or weekly manual backup and store it in a safe place away from the computer, e.g. in a fireproof safe on site, and a have weekly or monthly backup kept off site (e.g. in a bank safety deposit box), rotating the backup disks (e.g. portable HDs or SSDs, or USB flash drives), never overwrite the most recent one, overwrite the one before that, so you don’t lose your most recent data if you have a copying glitch while backing up, and you always have two manual backups, the latest and the one before that, in case of a failed disk. I’m guessing you probably don’t need that level of backup security, if you did you’d have it already and wouldn’t be asking how to recover your file, but every Mac user should at least have Time Machine set up, it is invaluable for little problems like your file loss and it would be a life-saver if you had a major data loss. PCS > On 22 Jan 2023, at 7:43 am, eeirv...@gmail.com wrote: > > I was requesting a Print Page Preview of my Spreadsheet File. When it opened > it looked ok so I clicked on the red button in the top left corner of the > Print Preview Screen (Mac Pro late 2012) and it asked me if I wanted to save, > Discard, Cancel. I thought it was speaking about the Print Page Review Screen > and not the File it self. I hit discard and it deleted my spreadsheet file. > Maybe it should have asked me if I wanted to delete the file after I selected > the Discard button. > > Is there a way to recover my spreadsheet fie? > > Thank you. > > Edwin Irving > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
