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recover lost text
I was working in a document then I must have pressed something because
suddenly my document went blank. I tried to find it on my computer but files/folders/documents with matching names were blank as well. I only have documents with blocks going across pages, as if encrypted. 2 documents found are like that and the other 2 are blank. PLEASE HELP ME RECOVER MY DATA. I have been working on this project for several months. Dummy me never backed it up, so please help. thank you |
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On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:29:02 -0800, blazenredhot
wrote: I was working in a document then I must have pressed something because suddenly my document went blank. I tried to find it on my computer but files/folders/documents with matching names were blank as well. I only have documents with blocks going across pages, as if encrypted. 2 documents found are like that and the other 2 are blank. PLEASE HELP ME RECOVER MY DATA. I have been working on this project for several months. Dummy me never backed it up, so please help. thank you It's a sad story, and it doesn't have a happy ending. If you never backed up, then there is no place on your computer to recover your text from, period. Word doesn't make stealth backups. If you ever printed the document, you could run that through a scanner and an OCR program. That's about the only method that stands a chance now. The other files you found were temporary files that Word uses to hold information about the document while you're working on it (see http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632) and would rarely have more than a tiny piece of the data, if any. For the future, here are some tips. (1) If something bad happens to a document you're working on, the first thing to try is the Undo command. *DO NOT* close the document or shut down Word until you've tried that -- if you panic and shut down, the undo buffer disappears from memory and you lose your best chance of recovery. (2) *DO* make backups, and not just of your document -- now that you've learned why, here's how: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/FilesToBackup.htm. (3) If you need reminding, see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/AutomaticSave.htm -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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