I have been reading the posts about how to get the original document back
when Word makes a TMP file. I typed a document in word and my computer
rebooted overnight, but my document did not save. It is quite lengthy and I
will have to retype it if I cannot extract the original text. One post
alluded to getting the document back, but it did not explain how. Can you
help me?

Gena Meeks


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

The only ones I've ever found to contain document content are the
~$wrlxxxx.tmp files, each of which is a complete previous save.

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"Russ" wrote in message
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So is there no way to recover the original text from a tmp file named wrs
or
wrf? I am trying to recover a file I accidentally saved over.

"Beth Melton" wrote:

I'm glad to hear you were able to recover the document. :-)

More than likely you found ~wrd002.tmp in the same folder as the
document.

Out of all the temp files Word creates, this is the only one (~wrd*.tmp)
that you could recover all of the document content.

Word creates this temp file Word when a document it saved. It
creates/writes the temp file in the document folder, deletes the original,
and moves the temp file to take the original's place.

The other temp file, called the Owner file, (~$*.do?) is created when
you open a previously saved document and all it contains is user info.

This file is used if you attempt to open the document a second time,
such as in a network environment. If Word finds the Owner file then you
encounter a message along the lines of "Document in use by User Name".

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"arhangelmihailo" wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I did it, I got me out of this problem. I can't believe it was so
simple!
Well, here it is. As we all know, there has to be a .tmp file that
Word makes, and thx God this is very useful in case of Word (or comp)
crashing. It is true that I only had to deal with 2 files: ~$plan2004.doc
and plan2004.doc. And there was no other .tmp file, at frst sight. In
fact, there was, but I had to dig it from the hard (God knows where I found
it!), and it was hidden attributed. And, that is right, this file is named
something like this ~wrd0002.tmp. It is slightly different from original
(formated adds were not the same), but the content is untouched, and that is
the most important. The rest was very easy...formating the content...save
as...and that's it.
Thx Everyone! Now, I can keep my job!