When you do a search for files on the system , it will find every
file with that criteria. In other words if you have a file called
Cliff's Bingo Chart.xls, and you have it in your My Documents, and
then maybe on a back up drive or the like, it'll find them both. One
might be newer than the other depending on a backup date. If you
search for "Cliff's", it'll find every file with "Cliff's" in the
name. The versions you've seen could be the recovered
files in Excel which were waiting to be either saved or deleted
too I suppose, I don't have any to check out. You might not be able
to move those. Probably the best thing to do in that case is open the
files you want to save right from the search results area and then
just do a Save As... and put them where you want.
FYI to verify, I successfully tested moving a file within the search
results area to a different spot in My Documents by arrowing to it
within the search results, , pressing Alt Enter to look at the
properties to find out where it was located. **You'll need to
Jaws/Review cursor to find the location in the properties area
unless there's a hot key , I just Jaws cursor.** Once I found out
where it was located I made note of it, pressed Escape, made sure it
was highlighted in the results area again. pressed Ctrl X, went into
My Documents and pasted with Ctrl V to a different spot. Then
verified in Windoes Explorer it was in fact gone from the original spot.
Brad
On 7/5/2011 09:12 PM Cliff Smales said...
Hello, Brad:
I followed through on your advice, and the results were most interesting.
Once the Properties file was open, I had interesting choices.
a trace on files going back as far as 1 week, 1 month, or one year.
I was able to find a spreadsheet, that I had lost only days ago.
There was some data missing, but that can be restored.
I'd like to move it back into "my documents" and make it active once again.
Is there a keyboard for moving a spreadsheet? The usual control
shift V didn't work for me.
Cliff
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Dunse'" <li...@braddunsemusic.com>
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Properties unavaiable/recovered files
Cliff. How do you know the properties are unavailable if you can't
find the file to look at them? Other than the obvious "that the
file isn't there".
If it is lost. If you know the file name or even part of it, try a
Windows Key plus F to search for it in the directories you think it
might be in, or just search the entire drive. When you find it then
with it highlighted in the results area of the search, try Alt
Enter to view the file properties. You can also use apps key, or
right click it. If you see it is misplaced, just CTRL X to cut it
and then go to the folder you want it in and paste it back in. Once
found then you can look at how it might have gotten there. Check
your recycle bin as well but if you search your drive and its in
there it ought show up in the search.
Brad
On 7/4/2011 03:28 PM Cliff Smales said...
A file that was lost, back on Friday, was a spreadsheet I use for
our Friday Night Bingo sessions.
Either in "My Documents" or in Excel, that file is misplaced. In
both instances, the properties are "unavailable.
Cliff Smales
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