Sometimes Windows makes "shadow" files in an attempt to isolate multiple users from each other. Depending on how an application is installed it may or may not see and write shadow files. Look in (I think) the hidden directory under your userid, AppData. Maybe that is where your file went.
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Mike Day <[email protected]> wrote: > (copied to Bill & Ric) > > I suspect Bill Lam and/or Ric Sherlock are the people are the people to > ask here, and but I'll ask the forum as a whole anyway: > > I've just acquired a new laptop and am enjoying learning 64-bit Windows 8. > I'm loth to pay big pounds for Office 2010 or whatever. My 32-bit Windows > 7 still supported my old Office 2003 but that doesn't run in Win 8. I've > downloaded Open Office which seems to be well thought of as an alternative > to M/S Office. > > I wonder how to continue do the following, which worked under Windows 7 > > I have a multi-worksheet xls file. > My J application successfully reads one small named worksheet, not the > first, using readexcel . > It uses that information and wished to modify the contents of that > worksheet ONLY. > Under Windows 7 it successfully called wdoowrite to do this. > However, I find the workbook is not updated on the new machine. > > I had used wdoowrite rather than writexlsheets as it appears that the > latter overwrites the whole file, but I might have misunderstood it. > It looks as if writeshtdat might do the job, but I'm not sure what locale > info to offer as the x argument. > > Advice would be welcome! > > Thanks > > Mike > > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**---------- > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/**forums.htm<http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
