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Overview of CSV File Recovery
CSV stands for "comma-separated values", it is a simple file format used to store tabular data, such as a spreadsheet or database. For common users like us, it's mostly related to Microsoft Excel. Especially, we backup contacts on smartphones as a .csv file, which can be open in Excel.
If you're the unlucky ones who inadvertently lost a .csv file that is really important, the following solutions might do some help.
How to Recover Lost or Deleted CSV Files
CSV files loss due to accidental deletion, unknown hidden, formatting or virus infection can be effortlessly retrieved back by EaseUS Data Recovery Software. This piece of decent EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard supports to recover 500+ types of files, including .csv file format. Learn from the 3-step guide to recover deleted CSV/Excel files with ease.
Step 1. Select location and click "Scan"
Choose the drive or a specific folder on Desktop or somewhere else where you lost the excel files, and click the "Scan" button.

Step 2. Locate your excel files
To quickly find the Excel files from the scan results, click the "Documents" option in the left panel. Choose "Excel", and click "Preview" to check if the Excel files are the wanted ones.

Step 3. Recover Excel files
Finally, select the desired Excel files and click the "Recover" button. Then, select a folder to save the Excel files to another location.

How to Recover Unsaved Changes in CSV Files
Here's another situation that you might lose changes made in the CSV file, for example, Excel crashed while you're editing on it, how to recover unsaved CSV files then? In this case, you can only try to recover the changes from the temporary files. Here is the path:
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\
How to Recover Overwritten CSV Files
Technically, you can use none third-party EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard programs to recover overwritten data, because once a file or folder is overwritten by new data, it's permanently gone.
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Written by Jean
Since graduating from university, Jean has been writing tech articles and has been a valuable member of the EaseUS team for over 5 years. Her areas of expertise include data recovery, disk partitioning, data backup, and multimedia world.
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