‘File error: data may have been lost’ Excel File Error

MS Office spreadsheet is an electronic file used to store a large amount of data in a tabular format. It is an easy way to manage our data but sometime it gets infected or damaged and hence start displaying error message. It displays many types of error message on the screen when user tries to open it or insert any data in it, from many errors ‘File error: data may have been lost’ error is very common. One of the characteristic reasons for such type of activities (displaying error) is file corruption and in this case you should have to restore excel file by the help of backup. But, in case of backup unavailability or damaged backup you can also apply professional excel file repair tool for complete restoration of damaged excel file. 

Cause of MS Excel File Error:

• Such type of error may appear due to the many reasons some of them are given bellow:
• Error showing MS excel file is created in earlier version and you trying to open it using a latest version of Ms excel.
• Due to data loss or file objects such as charts, images, drawings etc. That cannot be reachable in later version. 
• You are trying to open a corrupted MS Excel file.

How to Fix a Corrupt Ms Excel File:

To fix an error showing Ms Excel file you need to apply the following given methods: 

Method 1- Try to open the error showing file in the same version of MS Excel in which it has been created.

Method 2- If you are unable to get rid of excel error after applying the method 1 then it is sure that file might be damaged.  

Repair Excel spreadsheet using any of these methods:

·         Open the Excel spread file using ‘Open and Repair’ option

·         If your excel file is using a chart that is linked with any affected file, then extract data by using a macro.

·         Try to open excel file after converting it in XML or HTML format and then again converting it to Excel file format.

Also read: How to recover password protected MS Excel spreadsheet 2007?

If you have an updated backup file then apply the restoring method and restore damaged excel file. 

Otherwise use an advanced Excel Spreadsheet Repair tool and repair excel file, this tool is specially designed to deal with error showing excel file. It supports Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It is designed with advanced scanning algorithms and able to restore all file objects. It is also compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT.