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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, (~$*.do?) is created when you open a previously saved document and all it contains is user info. This file is used if you attempt to open the document a second time, such as in a network environment. If Word finds the Owner file then you encounter a message along the lines of "Document in use by User Name". -- Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup. Email requests for assistance can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ "arhangelmihailo" wrote: Hi Everyone, I did it, I got me out of this problem. I can't believe it was so simple! Well, here it is. As we all know, there has to be a .tmp file that Word makes, and thx God this is very useful in case of Word (or comp) crashing. It is true that I only had to deal with 2 files: ~$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! |
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The only ones I've ever found to contain document content are the
~$wrlxxxx.tmp files, each of which is a complete previous save. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Russ" wrote in message ... So is there no way to recover the original text from a tmp file named wrs or wrf? I am trying to recover a file I accidentally saved over. "Beth Melton" wrote: I'm glad to hear you were able to recover the document. :-) More than likely you found ~wrd002.tmp in the same folder as the document. Out of all the temp files Word creates, this is the only one (~wrd*.tmp) that you could recover all of the document content. Word creates this temp file Word when a document it saved. It creates/writes the temp file in the document folder, deletes the original, and moves the temp file to take the original's place. The other temp file, called the Owner file, (~$*.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". -- Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup. Email requests for assistance can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ "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: ~$plan2004.doc and plan2004.doc. And there was no other .tmp file, at frst sight. In fact, there was, but I had to dig it from the hard (God knows where I found it!), and it was hidden attributed. And, that is right, this file is named something like this ~wrd0002.tmp. It is slightly different from original (formated adds were not the same), but the content is untouched, and that is the most important. The rest was very easy...formating the content...save as...and that's it. Thx Everyone! Now, I can keep my job! |
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I have been reading the posts about how to get the original document back
when Word makes a TMP file. I typed a document in word and my computer rebooted overnight, but my document did not save. It is quite lengthy and I will have to retype it if I cannot extract the original text. One post alluded to getting the document back, but it did not explain how. Can you help me? Gena Meeks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The only ones I've ever found to contain document content are the ~$wrlxxxx.tmp files, each of which is a complete previous save. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Russ" wrote in message ... 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, (~$*.do?) is created when you open a previously saved document and all it contains is user info. This file is used if you attempt to open the document a second time, such as in a network environment. If Word finds the Owner file then you encounter a message along the lines of "Document in use by User Name". -- Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup. Email requests for assistance can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ "arhangelmihailo" wrote: Hi Everyone, I did it, I got me out of this problem. I can't believe it was so simple! Well, here it is. As we all know, there has to be a .tmp file that Word makes, and thx God this is very useful in case of Word (or comp) crashing. It is true that I only had to deal with 2 files: ~$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! |
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Rebooting should clear any temporary files. If you didn't save the document,
there is nothing to recover. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org susiq wrote: 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 ~$wrlxxxx.tmp files, each of which is a complete previous save. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Russ" wrote in message ... So is there no way to recover the original text from a tmp file named wrs or wrf? I am trying to recover a file I accidentally saved over. "Beth Melton" wrote: I'm glad to hear you were able to recover the document. :-) More than likely you found ~wrd002.tmp in the same folder as the document. Out of all the temp files Word creates, this is the only one (~wrd*.tmp) that you could recover all of the document content. Word creates this temp file Word when a document it saved. It creates/writes the temp file in the document folder, deletes the original, and moves the temp file to take the original's place. The other temp file, called the Owner file, (~$*.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". -- Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup. Email requests for assistance can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ "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! |
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Hi Gena, Graham,
You're probably not working with Word2003? That would try to recover the doc the next time you start Word. If the machine crashed overnight, it's just about certain that Word left temporary files. And I don't think rebooting does anything to temp files? Not even restarting/quitting Word (before 2003) would do that: I get about 100 temp files a month to clean up on my machine from crashes. You should search for ~*.*,*.tmp, sort the results by date, and then check the list for files that have about the right size and time stamp. You'll need to include hidden files and folders under the advanced search options, I guess. If they contain something useful, you can likely just open them in Word (... *not* using "Recover text from any file": that would loose all formatting). Regards, Klaus "Graham Mayor" wrote: Rebooting should clear any temporary files. If you didn't save the document, there is nothing to recover. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org susiq wrote: 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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Russ" wrote in message ... 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, (~$*.do?) is created when you open a previously saved document and all it contains is user info. This file is used if you attempt to open the document a second time, such as in a network environment. If Word finds the Owner file then you encounter a message along the lines of "Document in use by User Name". -- Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup. Email requests for assistance can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ "arhangelmihailo" wrote: Hi Everyone, I did it, I got me out of this problem. I can't believe it was so simple! Well, here it is. As we all know, there has to be a .tmp file that Word makes, and thx God this is very useful in case of Word (or comp) crashing. It is true that I only had to deal with 2 files: ~$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! |
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I have read the answers to this post but not sure the answer I need is there.
I have upgraded from ME to XP My MS Word program is Word 2002 SP3 When I open a document (eg: The Document) in Word it immediately saves a 1k document with the name ~$e Document (tilde and dollar sign replacing first two letters of title) in the same file as the original document. Opening this new document shows the information I have on File/Properties/Summary for Author and Company and nothing else. Problem: Unless I delete this 1k document before I start working on the main document the computer soon locks and can only be reactivated through switching off the power. Any suggestions? "Klaus Linke" wrote: Hi Gena, Graham, You're probably not working with Word2003? That would try to recover the doc the next time you start Word. If the machine crashed overnight, it's just about certain that Word left temporary files. And I don't think rebooting does anything to temp files? Not even restarting/quitting Word (before 2003) would do that: I get about 100 temp files a month to clean up on my machine from crashes. You should search for ~*.*,*.tmp, sort the results by date, and then check the list for files that have about the right size and time stamp. You'll need to include hidden files and folders under the advanced search options, I guess. If they contain something useful, you can likely just open them in Word (... *not* using "Recover text from any file": that would loose all formatting). Regards, Klaus "Graham Mayor" wrote: Rebooting should clear any temporary files. If you didn't save the document, there is nothing to recover. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org susiq wrote: I have been reading the posts about how to get the original document back when Word makes a TMP file. I typed a document in word and my computer rebooted overnight, but my document did not save. It is quite lengthy and I will have to retype it if I cannot extract the original text. One post alluded to getting the document back, but it did not explain how. Can you help me? Gena Meeks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The only ones I've ever found to contain document content are the ~$wrlxxxx.tmp files, each of which is a complete previous save. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Russ" wrote in message ... 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, (~$*.do?) is created when you open a previously saved document and all it contains is user info. This file is used if you attempt to open the document a second time, such as in a network environment. If Word finds the Owner file then you encounter a message along the lines of "Document in use by User Name". -- Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup. Email requests for assistance can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ "arhangelmihailo" wrote: Hi Everyone, I did it, I got me out of this problem. I can't believe it was so simple! Well, here it is. As we all know, there has to be a .tmp file that Word makes, and thx God this is very useful in case of Word (or comp) crashing. It is true that I only had to deal with 2 files: ~$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! |