Appointment Attachment Didn't Save

I am hoping someone can explain why this is happening!
I have Office 07 and Win Vista. One of my calendar appointments had an Excel
07 file attached to it. I should have saved it to my harddrive and edited,
but i opened it from the appointment instead. I made changes to the doc and
clicked the save button (on my QAT) in Excel multiple times while I made
edits. I closed Excel and it did not prompt me to save the doc.

I am looking for answers to these questions:
1. Where did the file get saved? I can't find it ANYWHERE! It is gone. I
suspected it may have saved in the appointment but it didn't.

2. I noticed that the appointment asks whether i want to save before closing
it. I must have clicked "no" the first time because I thought I had saved the
Excel doc. When i tried to replicate the problem I said "yes" to the prompt
and all the changes were saved to the doc attachment in my appointment. I'm
not sure where this doc gets saved, either. If the appointment were deleted,
so would my file.

Can anyone shed light on this? I am nervous to attach files sent to my
colleagues' meeting requests, etc. without solving this mystery.

"Katie Mills" wrote in message
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I am hoping someone can explain why this is happening!
I have Office 07 and Win Vista. One of my calendar appointments had an Excel
07 file attached to it. I should have saved it to my harddrive and edited,
but i opened it from the appointment instead. I made changes to the doc and
clicked the save button (on my QAT) in Excel multiple times while I made
edits. I closed Excel and it did not prompt me to save the doc.

I am looking for answers to these questions:
1. Where did the file get saved? I can't find it ANYWHERE! It is gone. I
suspected it may have saved in the appointment but it didn't.

When you open an attachment in Outlook, it gets written to the "Outlook Secure
Temp" folder. This folder is usually a subfolder of your Temporary Internet
Files folder and you cannot browse to it using Windows Explorer. If you know
its exact name, however, you can access its contents. Your file _may_ be
there still, but it's a _temporary_ folder. The data may have been deleted.
See this for information on how to find it:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/securetemp.htm
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]