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how do i recover changes i made to a document????
can anyone help. I have a document saved (I call it A) and i was working with
another doc. (B) Somehow the doc A is now Doc B. I desperately need to undo changes I made to doc A. HOW |
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Hi, Alison,
1. If you have not saved either A or B since you discovered this problem, stop. Do not initiate another save. 2, Save A and B "as" xx and yy. Assuming you HAVE saved saved both these documents and that you had Tools | Options | Save "Always create backup copy" box checked: 1. You now have the following files on your hard drive: A Backup of A B Backup of B. 2. If you only made ONE save of A, you should find a pristine copy of A in Backup of A. 3. If you made MORE THAN one save of A, Backup of A will no longer be of any use to you at all. However, Windows-based applications (almost?) always can be counted on to create oceans of tmp files that contain lovely data that you just hate to lose. (I assume these files are the ones that are created that allow you to hit ctrl-Z and go back in time one {ill-advised} change at a time. But, I may be dead wrong on this. For whatever reason, those files are out there, probably in the dirctory called "C:\WINDOWS\Temp" or with a file name that begins with "~" or ends with "tmp".) Whatever. IF you are toast under the above scenario, you still may be able to search (starting from the root directory or "C:\") the file CONTENT (not the file NAME) for a string (combination of letters or numbers) that is unique. Thus, if your late lamentable document A has the phrase "Death to Osama" in it, that very phrase may show up INSIDE one of those temp files. Therefore, search from the root directory for that unique phrase in any document ("*.*") and you may get lucky and find a temp file that has those lovely missing data in their entirety. Richard "Alison" wrote in message ... can anyone help. I have a document saved (I call it A) and i was working with another doc. (B) Somehow the doc A is now Doc B. I desperately need to undo changes I made to doc A. HOW |
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