Help! Numbers file lost?

Hello,
So I opened an exiting spreadsheet file.
I deleted what was in the cells, I then hit duplicate and then saved that duplicate as a new file.
Problem now is when I open the old original, all the data is gone. Did it save and over write? I never saw anything saying that I was saving. Can I go back to find the old anywhere?
Thanks!!

So I actually figured this out if anyone reading this came across the same problem.
Open the spreadsheet in numbers. At the top next to the name of your file, there is an arrow to the right. Once you click on that, you can go back further in time and restore your file to the one you need.

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libby17 wrote:
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I've recently encountered a new problem when emailing numbers (.numbers) files.
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This may be a "new" issue with the recent upgrade from Numbers'09 but I'm not sure since I have not had the need to send a numbers doc from one person/computer to another since the update to the new version of Numbers.
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I CANNOT OPEN the numbers document.
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I don't really want to switch my method of filing simply for sharing purposes.
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Who Moved My Cheese?
http://www.spencerjohnson.com/Book-WhoMovedMyCheese.html
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Have about 2.5 MB numbers file with a single table that tis often updated
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I have put the file in dropbox backed up folder and even here the file is deleted - while restoring it form dropbox, the log shows file is deleted by my computer automatically
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Hi, I have programming experience in c and other languages, but am new to applescript and so am learning a lot from this forum.
My goal is to make a timesheet system for my Dad (for a bday present) where every time he helps a client, he fills out a newly created numbers file - and after a week or so, he can run a script that scrapes certain values from each numbers file and places it into a master numbers file. Then saving and closing the file.
Vince, it sounds like you've written a script that does this feature of looping through all numbers files in a folder and putting select values from each numbers file into a master numbers file (after clearing the previous values of the master file).
Specifically, I'm looking for a sample script that opens up a numbers file, clears its table, then fills this table by scraping one value from a particular cell in every numbers file in a folder.
If anyone has a similar script they would be willing to post or email to me, for me to use as a foundation and to learn from, I would be very very very grateful. My email is forman.jq at gmail dot com.

I guess that this script may be a good starting point.
--[SCRIPT fromfolder_2spreadsheet1]
The target spreadsheet must be open at front and must contain the sheet sheet_destination which much contain the table table_destination.
Choose the folder supposed to store the source sopreadsheets.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)
2010/08/18
--=====
(* Edit these height properties to fit your needs *)
property destination : "destinationDoc.numbers"
property sheet_destination : "destination"
property table_destination : "insert here"
property premierelignedestination : 2
property colonne_destination : 2
property ledossierhabituel : "Macintosh HD Maxtor:Users:yvan_koenig:Desktop:dossier habituel:"
property ligne_source : 2
property colonne_source : 2
--=====
on run
my activateGUIscripting()
Select the folder storing the spreadsheets from which we will extract values *)
set dossier_source to choose folder with prompt "Choose folder storing the Numbers documents…" default location (ledossierhabituel as alias)
Build a list of disk items available in the selected folder *)
tell application "System Events"
set les_elements to every disk item of folder (dossier_source as text) --whose (get type identifier) is in
set les_tableurs to {}
Extracts the list of the Numbers spreadsheets available in the selected folder *)
repeat with refsurelement in les_elements
if type identifier of refsurelement is in {"com.apple.iwork.numbers.numbers", "com.apple.iwork.numbers.sffnumbers"} then
copy path of refsurelement to end of les_tableurs
end if
end repeat
end tell -- System Events
if les_tableurs is {} then
No Numbers documents available so we stop the process. *)
set rapport to "The folder “" & dossier_source & "” doesn’t contain Numbers documents !"
else
set rapport to {}
end if
Check that the target Numbers document is open at front
and that it embed the defined sheet embedding the defined table. *)
tell application "Numbers"
activate
set existants to name of documents
if destination is not in existants then
copy "The document " & destination & " is not open !" to end of rapport
else
tell document destination
if sheet_destination is not in (name of sheets) then
copy "the sheet " & sheet_destination & " is unavailable in the document " & destination & " !" to end of rapport
else
tell sheet sheet_destination
if table_destination is not in (name of tables) then copy "The table " & table_destination & " is unavailable in the sheet " & sheet_destination & " of the document " & destination & " !" to end of rapport
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end if
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if rapport is not {} then error my recolle(rapport, return)
Clean the target table, minus row 1 supposed to be storing columns headers *)
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my selectMenu("Numbers", 4, 9) (* Suppress *)
set liste_valeurs to {}
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repeat with un_tableur in les_tableurs
Open the spreadsheets and extract from each of them the wanted value *)
open un_tableur
tell document 1 to tell sheet 1 to tell table 1
set une_valeur to value of cell 2 of column 2
end tell
if une_valeur is 0.0 then
copy "empty" to end of liste_valeurs
else
copy une_valeur as text to end of liste_valeurs
end if
close document 1
end repeat
Now, it's time to insert the values in the target table *)
set ligne_destination to premierelignedestination
tell document destination to tell sheet sheet_destination to tell table table_destination
repeat with une_valeur in liste_valeurs
if not (exists row ligne_destination) then add row below last row
if une_valeur is not "empty" then
set value of cell ligne_destination of column colonne_destination to une_valeur
end if
set ligne_destination to ligne_destination + 1
end repeat
end tell -- document destination
save document destination
end tell -- Numbers
end run
--=====
on recolle(l, d)
local oTIDs, t
set oTIDs to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d
set t to l as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oTIDs
return t
end recolle
--=====
on activateGUIscripting()
(* to be sure than GUI scripting will be active *)
tell application "System Events"
if not (UI elements enabled) then set (UI elements enabled) to true
end tell
end activateGUIscripting
--=====
my selectMenu("Pages",5, 12)
==== Uses GUIscripting ====
on selectMenu(theApp, mt, mi)
tell application theApp
activate
tell application "System Events" to tell process theApp to tell menu bar 1 to ¬
tell menu bar item mt to tell menu 1 to click menu item mi
end tell -- application theApp
end selectMenu
--=====
--[/SCRIPT]
I apologize, I'm too busy to write more explanations.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 18 août 2010 21:38:04

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