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recover tmp file - urgent
Hi guys,
Sorry for this - I've had a stinker and have no time on my hands. I worked 12 hours on a document (saved it a few times), but then my laptop totally died! I never managed to restart it and it has gone to heaven. Obviously Word never got the chance to do an autorecover.. but I did pull out the hard-drive. Inspecting it from another PC, I found the .tmp file which is 2 hours more recent than the Word file. Just opening the tmp from notepad or word just brings up jibberish though (there were a lot of drawings in it). Is there any way I can persuade my current PC (which I've now copied all relevant files to) to treat it as a proper recovery file and get me all the goodies that I saved?? Thanks for any help!!! Basil |
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recover tmp file - urgent
Probably not. The temp files that Word creates are not necessarily working
copies of the document. The last saved version is the only one you are likely to recover. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Basil wrote: Hi guys, Sorry for this - I've had a stinker and have no time on my hands. I worked 12 hours on a document (saved it a few times), but then my laptop totally died! I never managed to restart it and it has gone to heaven. Obviously Word never got the chance to do an autorecover.. but I did pull out the hard-drive. Inspecting it from another PC, I found the .tmp file which is 2 hours more recent than the Word file. Just opening the tmp from notepad or word just brings up jibberish though (there were a lot of drawings in it). Is there any way I can persuade my current PC (which I've now copied all relevant files to) to treat it as a proper recovery file and get me all the goodies that I saved?? Thanks for any help!!! Basil |
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