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Recovery of a document
Hi everyone
I have been working on a document and my PC crashed. I hadn't saved it nor had I set any AutoRecovery interval. Is it likely that there are any remnants of the document, or indeed the whole document, that I could recover from my hard drive? I realise that this may not be recoverable within Word but just wonder if there may be any DOS "tricks" or third party software to allow recovery. I was fortunate in not having typed much of the document and I think I should be able to do the work again, but it would be good if I could recover it from my hard drive. Thanks for your time. |
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Tosca
I doubt it very much.. when creating a document, the very first thing that you should do is give it a name and save it.. then set the autosave.. it doesn't hurt to manually save every now and again either.. -- Mike Hall MVP - Windows Shell/User "Tosca" wrote in message ... Hi everyone I have been working on a document and my PC crashed. I hadn't saved it nor had I set any AutoRecovery interval. Is it likely that there are any remnants of the document, or indeed the whole document, that I could recover from my hard drive? I realise that this may not be recoverable within Word but just wonder if there may be any DOS "tricks" or third party software to allow recovery. I was fortunate in not having typed much of the document and I think I should be able to do the work again, but it would be good if I could recover it from my hard drive. Thanks for your time. |
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Thank you Mike. Fortunately, the crash occurred very early in the creation
of the document and I've learned the lesson now! My question was triggered by the belief that all sorts of things are saved by MS without the knowledge of the user but maybe that's not true after all. "Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote in message ... Tosca I doubt it very much.. when creating a document, the very first thing that you should do is give it a name and save it.. then set the autosave.. it doesn't hurt to manually save every now and again either.. -- Mike Hall MVP - Windows Shell/User |
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