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Microsoft Word - urgent and desperate! I have to recover a word file
Expert: Aidan Heritage - 11/4/2009
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QUESTION: Hi! I opened a Word document that was attached to an email message (in my yahoo account) with Word 2007. I did a lot of updates to the document, clicking on the "Save" icon occasionally to make sure I didn't lose the changes, and I worked hours and hours on this document. Not thinking, when I was done, I clicked on the "x" in the upper right hand corner of Word to close the document. I thought the document was saved on my desktop, but it was not anywhere. I also looked for it with the search companion, specifying the date I last modified it and putting the temporary word file extensions like *.TMP and ~*.*, but it did not help. Another thing is that I’m working on a shared computer in my school, and I cannot access to everyfile, can’t download any program, etc. I wanted help from our network administrator, he said he could not find, but I want to force every way bcs maybe he did not have much time to look for it. I would appreciate so much any ideas how I can find my document with the changes?
ANSWER: As the attachment was opened directly, it will be in one of the temporary locations - but it will have been saved with whatever name you used - HOWEVER, as it WAS a temporary location there is a chance that it has been deleted once the session it was opened from was closed - you have done a search already, so I have a strong suspicion you aren't going to find it - not sure if your environment allows macros, if so I could probably write one that searches the hard drive. ALSO if you haven't had any (or many) other files open then the last used file list on the office button should still list the document so you could open it from there.
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QUESTION: Thank you very much for your time in answering me. The problem is that I tried opening the file from the last useed files in word button, but my file did not appear. The other thing is that as I use a shared computer in my school and the system has a network administrator, I think the system would not let you or me to search the hard drive. And lastly, just after losing it I had searched for it and nothing with the same file and extension name came out. I guess I should stop looking for it! Thank you very much again...
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It MAY be there, but you probably are out of luck - we have a similar problem in my office, though you can search the harddrive with a macro, you cannot see the files - safest when getting attachements to save them somewhere, then open the saved copy -then you know where it is!
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