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Hello,

My office computer has been recently upgraded and I am having trouple
locating all the macros I had stored in quot;personal.xlsquot;. I believe I
was running 2003 and I still am, but I could have been running an
earlier version (maybe 2000?).

Right now I have my old drive hooked up as an external so all the files
should be still sitting there. I was instructed to look in the
following folder (now moved to my desktop from old drive):

...\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART

But that folder is totally empty.

I am finding nothing when I search for quot;personal.xlsquot;. Is that the
name is should be stored under? FYI- I log into my machine this type
of thing could be associated with my login name.

Thank so much ... (nervously waiting)--
William DeLeo
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William DeLeo's Profile: www.excelforum.com/member.php...foamp;userid=1256
View this thread: www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=524483Depending on your upgrade path, you may have the personal.xls file in a
different folder.

I'd search again.

Maybe even using an old DOS command.

Windows|start button|run
cmd (windows 2k/xp)
command (windows 98)

At the DOS prompt:
X: (to get to the x: drive, change X to your external drive letter)
cd\ (to get to the root directory)

dir personal*.xl* /s

the /s means to search through subdirectories.

Maybe it'll pop up.

William DeLeo wrote:
gt;
gt; Hello,
gt;
gt; My office computer has been recently upgraded and I am having trouple
gt; locating all the macros I had stored in quot;personal.xlsquot;. I believe I
gt; was running 2003 and I still am, but I could have been running an
gt; earlier version (maybe 2000?).
gt;
gt; Right now I have my old drive hooked up as an external so all the files
gt; should be still sitting there. I was instructed to look in the
gt; following folder (now moved to my desktop from old drive):
gt;
gt; ..\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART
gt;
gt; But that folder is totally empty.
gt;
gt; I am finding nothing when I search for quot;personal.xlsquot;. Is that the
gt; name is should be stored under? FYI- I log into my machine this type
gt; of thing could be associated with my login name.
gt;
gt; Thank so much ... (nervously waiting)
gt;
gt; --
gt; William DeLeo
gt; ------------------------------------------------------------------------
gt; William DeLeo's Profile: www.excelforum.com/member.php...foamp;userid=1256
gt; View this thread: www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=524483

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Dave Peterson


Hello Dave ... thanks for the reply.

I was able to recall some DOS ... but not enough.

The C drive comes up when I run cmd and I found nothing (Volume in
drive C has no label ... file not found). How would I change to a
different drive to search there as well?

Thanks again.--
William DeLeo
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i'm an idiot ... maybe I should try reading your entire email first ...--
William DeLeo
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...but still nothing found ... nothing on C nor the old drive E. I
don't get it ... I didn't delete anything yet ... where could it be???

Pfbt!--
William DeLeo
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View this thread: www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=524483Maybe it's time to check all your drives--including mapped drives???

William DeLeo wrote:
gt;
gt; ..but still nothing found ... nothing on C nor the old drive E. I
gt; don't get it ... I didn't delete anything yet ... where could it be???
gt;
gt; Pfbt!
gt;
gt; --
gt; William DeLeo
gt; ------------------------------------------------------------------------
gt; William DeLeo's Profile: www.excelforum.com/member.php...foamp;userid=1256
gt; View this thread: www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=524483

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Dave Peterson