… Yes, already tried that. Found the files, still can't be opened. File damaged/corrupted. I've tried to open it as zip, and extract the xml. It is broken. …
By "that", I assume you mean "Shadow Copies"?
Out of curiosity, how many shadow versions did you find?
What were their associated dates?
Were they all corrupt?
Broken Excel file issue generally occurs due to some corruption error encountered in Excel workbook. Well opening of such damaged or corrupt Excel file is possible by making use of Open and Repair, Excel AutoBackup and Excel AutoRecover feature, and through several other options.
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excel is a zip file contains xml data so that use raw recovery zip and expand compound files. inside compunds search xml body for excel