How to Recover Shift Deleted Excel Files in Windows 10?

How to recover permanently deleted Excel files?

Have you ever deleted Excel files from your computer? Almost every Windows user has felt the panic that comes with accidentally deleting important data. Some users are used to deleting files with the shortcut-Shift+Delete function to delete files quickly because they don't want to delete them again in Recycle Bin.  

However, it means the deleted Excel files are permanently wiped from computers. As a result, it’s not easy to find them back because you couldn’t locate the files. Fortunately, you can undo the Shift-Delete action to restore all of the deleted data. Even more, there are several solutions to help you recover Shift-deleted Excel files in Windows 10.

Recover Shift deleted Excel files via File History

Windows 10 offers a useful tool called File History, which can assist you in recovering permanently deleted files if enabled. It is in charge of replicating all files in the Music, Photos, Videos, and Documents folders.

File History makes backups every hour, allowing you to effortlessly view several previous versions and restore them as you need. You could easily recover Shift deleted files without software, even restoring permanently deleted from Recycle Bin. Perform the following steps to recover Shift-deleted Excel files from previous versions.

* If you haven't turned on File History yet, this is a good time to do so to avoid future data loss. To enable it, navigate to “Control Panel” > “System and Security” > “File History”. But File History only backs up the folders in your User folder.

Step 1. Type “restore files” in the search bar to open “Restore your files with File History”.

Step 2. Locate the folder which includes the deleted Excel files. And click the “Restore” button to recover deleted Excel files to the previous location.

Step 3. Alternatively, you could right-click the folder and choose “Previous Versions”.

Recover Shift deleted Excel files via Windows File Recovery

As we all know, Windows File Recovery is an official command-line app released by Microsoft in 2020. It is an official solution to recover Shift Deleted files, aiming to help users recover lost or delete files for Windows computers.

However, it requires Windows 10 build 19041 and above, and it also does not support files recovery saved to the cloud. There are four modes to use according to File System and data loss scenarios. To use Windows File Recovery, you need to input commands as the format:

winfr source-drive: destination-drive: [/mode] [/switches]

To check the File System of disks, please right-click a partition of a disk, and you will see the File System. Currently, Windows File Recovery supports NTFS, FAT, and exFAT.

For example, if you want to recover the Excel file named “Test” from D: to E: with NTFS File System, you could type the commands: winfr D: E: /regular /n \D: \Test.xlsx.

You could get Windows File Recovery from Microsoft Store, but it’s recommended to use Windows File Recovery GUI if you are not familiar with command lines. You may encounter kinds of errors when using Windows File Recovery. Like “WinFR Requires Admin Privileges to Run” or “Winfr.exe Is Not Recognized as an Internal or External Command”.

Recover Shift deleted Excel files via Data recovery software

How to recover Shift deleted Excel files in Windows 10? The quickest and easiest way to recover shift deleted excel files is to use a third-party data recovery tool. There is a wide variety of data recovery software available on the market, but it's strongly recommended MyRecover. The software's advanced scanning and detection algorithms can scan your hard drive and restore all deleted files during scanning, including those that have been Shift-Deleted or emptied from the Recycle Bin.  

MyRecover is a reliable data recovery program and supports more than 200 types of file recovery, including images, videos, word documents, excel, ppt, pdf, etc. It can help users to recover deleted and lost data from NTFS, FAT32, and ReFS file systems. If your Windows operating system is below Windows 10, MyRecover is the best choice to restore permanently deleted Excel files. 

★Key features of MyRecover:

 Restore deleted and missing files with a high success rate and fast speed.

 Recover 200+ types of data.

 Support data recovery during the scanning process.

Compatible with Windows OS from Windows 7 SP1, 8, to Windows 11.

Step 1. Download and install MyRecover on your Windows computer. Hover the mouse over the drive saved deleted files before, and click Scan.

Step 2. Wait for the scanning process to perform. You could recover data even if the scanning has not been completed yet. 

Step 3. Select the Excel files that you want to recover and click "Recover files" to save the permanently deleted Excel files. 

Conclusion

How to recover Shift deleted Excel files in Windows 10? You can get the useful methods from above. When you deleted Excel files by Shift +Delete keys, your Excel files would be permanently deleted from your computer, because you couldn’t find them in Recycle Bin. However, you could restore Shift deleted Excel files via File History if enabled. If not, Windows File Recovery would be a good choice for you to recover deleted files without backups.

But if you are not tech-savvy, you could consider using MyRecover to recover deleted Excel files in Windows 10 instead of Windows File Recovery. Because it’s easier and more user-friendly than Winfr.

Of course, the best way to avoid data loss is to make backups regularly. You could try the freeware-AOMEI Backupper to copy your important files into the schedule.