[Dean]

Forgive me once more, as I have posted this on other newsgroups that have no activity whatsoever since earlier yesterday, so it looks like this is the place to be seen! Even though my computer may be overloaded and should be rebooted, I am afraid to shut it down, lest I lose what temporary background-save fragments I need to recover what I seem to have lost - that is why I have this sense of urgency. Here is what I posted elsewhere yesterday, please help! :

I was working on a few MS Word documents today, documents that I update daily and, I took a couple of hours off and when I came back, MS Word was closed and, when I reopened Word, the documents had none of the changes I had made today.

My settings are to allow "background saves" and to do autorecover every 10 minutes. When, I did a search for Word docs modified in the last day, my files (which I update and resave daily) showed up, but none of them had any updates I've done in the last 24 hours in them, even though I think they showed today's date (not sure on that). Some of the temporary hushed files (same name with a tilde in front) seem to show up, but if you open them by themselves, it's garbage. Now, I did the search again, 15 minutes later, and far fewer files show up.

I don't understand this. Can someone tell me the best way to integrate whatever background saved files I have, in order to try to resurrect what I did today?

Thanks so much, Dean