help recovering a file

MDUK

I have just spent two hours ammending a word doc and think i have lost it.

the doc was sent to me in an email. i opened it, started working on it and closed the mail. i think i said 'no' to save changes it then warned me the attachement was still open. i took that to be that everything was OK and carried out ammending the doc and saving it.

when i finished and closed everything down i tried to open the attachement in the mail to send it back to the person it came from but none of the changes were there

i have done a search and there was a document by that name but when you click on the file in search it says the location the shortcut points to has moved. any ideas please?

Debt_Free_Chick

If you said "no" to saving changes, then it's highly likely that the changed doc is lost forever.

However, email attachments are often stored in your Temporary Internet Files folder. Open Word, then Recent Documents or navigate (from the Word, Open File dialog box to Documents and Settings, User Name, Temporary Internet Files, OLK ...) - so you could try in there.

Sometimes though, it's simply quicker to open the original and redo the changes, rather than spending an eternity trying to find the revised document.

John_Gray

I agree with Debt_Free_Chick, mainly because I've been in that exact same situation several times! The absolute first thing you must do with a Word attachment, if you are going to amend it, is to save it somewhere. Otherwise unhappiness occurs...

John

leesmithg

MDUK wrote:

I have just spent two hours ammending a word doc and think i have lost it.

the doc was sent to me in an email. i opened it, started working on it and closed the mail. i think i said 'no' to save changes it then warned me the attachement was still open. i took that to be that everything was OK and carried out ammending the doc and saving it.

when i finished and closed everything down i tried to open the attachement in the mail to send it back to the person it came from but none of the changes were there

i have done a search and there was a document by that name but when you click on the file in search it says the location the shortcut points to has moved. any ideas please?

Just re-open the email again and use the document.

If for some strange mysterious reason you cannot ask the sender to send it again.

Browntoa

if you are lucky it is still in your temp files, can you not access it direct if you start word and then open the last document you worked on ??

if it is still there then use "Save As" to save it in your documents

Toxteth_OGrady

If you had Word 'Save Backup' and 'Auto Recovery' enabled you may have a backup of your document as a Word .wbk file in C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Microsoft\Word

:cool:

TOG

MDUK

Thanks for your suggesions.

i spent and hour and a half downloading recovery softare and searching for it etc but it's gone. Very depressing sitting up until 2 in the morning and although i saved the changes as i was going along it was still sat in the email rather than being saved somewhere else. i didn't save changes to my email... a harsh lesson....