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How to recover a accidentally saved file.
My father is writing a book. He has selected the whole document and deleted.
After that he saved the document. How can i recover the document. |
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"Koray" wrote
My father is writing a book. He has selected the whole document and deleted. After that he saved the document. How can i recover the document. If he only saved once, the {filename}.wbk file should be OK. Immediately make a copy of it and save it in a safe place. Make another copy and rename it {filename}.doc or whatever extension the file he was working with had. My wife did exactly what your father did except that she went to the trouble of saving the file twice, which of course trashed the backup. A tip: I disabled the control-A shortcut to select the whole document on her setup of Word. You might consider doing the same thing. Another tip: Every morning after she's worked on her book (she works at night) I copy the file and its backup to a separate directory on a USB drive attached to her system. -- Bob Kanyak's Doghouse http://www.kanyak.com |
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If the option to create a backup file is not set - and this is the default -
then it looks as though he will have a lot of retyping to do. However a file recovery program capable of disc sector editing may be able to recover much of it, provided no further work is done on the PC until this has been attempted. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Opinicus wrote: "Koray" wrote My father is writing a book. He has selected the whole document and deleted. After that he saved the document. How can i recover the document. If he only saved once, the {filename}.wbk file should be OK. Immediately make a copy of it and save it in a safe place. Make another copy and rename it {filename}.doc or whatever extension the file he was working with had. My wife did exactly what your father did except that she went to the trouble of saving the file twice, which of course trashed the backup. A tip: I disabled the control-A shortcut to select the whole document on her setup of Word. You might consider doing the same thing. Another tip: Every morning after she's worked on her book (she works at night) I copy the file and its backup to a separate directory on a USB drive attached to her system. |
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If he did not close the document, select Undo from the toolbar. If he
closed the document, he has a real problem. The first lesson he needs to learn is to make back ups of his work. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Koray" wrote in message ... My father is writing a book. He has selected the whole document and deleted. After that he saved the document. How can i recover the document. |
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As you've seen from the other responses, it all boils down to two chances:
(1) Does he have Word set up to automatically make a backup? (2) Has he closed that file? If the answer to 1 is no and 2 is yes, then apart from spending money on recovery software/service, the answer is no. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Koray" wrote in message ... My father is writing a book. He has selected the whole document and deleted. After that he saved the document. How can i recover the document. |
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"Graham Mayor" wrote
If the option to create a backup file is not set - and this is the default - Really? I never noticed that. One can't help wondering who made such a dumb design decision. Has to have been somebody who never had a program lose his work. -- Bob Kanyak's Doghouse http://www.kanyak.com |
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I suspect that the reason is that .wbk files are not visible in File
Open/Save unless you have "All Files" displayed, so users would ordinarily be unaware of them, and they do tend to accumulate. If HD space is at a premium, this can be an issue. And users don't like "mystery files." Look how exercised they get about temp files, and those are deleted (or are supposed to be) when you close the document. -- 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. "Opinicus" wrote in message ... "Graham Mayor" wrote If the option to create a backup file is not set - and this is the default - Really? I never noticed that. One can't help wondering who made such a dumb design decision. Has to have been somebody who never had a program lose his work. -- Bob Kanyak's Doghouse http://www.kanyak.com |
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On 9/4/05 5:20 AM, "Opinicus" wrote:
My wife did exactly what your father did except that she went to the trouble of saving the file twice, which of course trashed the backup. That's why I actually don't have backups turned on. The high probability that I would hit ctrl-s twice before realizing I messed up makes it not worth dealing with. |
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Koray,
What a crappy feeling. If the .wbk file doesn't work, you might try some undelete tools to mine for the data. Here are some freeware undelete tools: http://free-backup.info/data-recovery-software.htm Ultimately, you should have a backup plan that at least backs up your critical files once per day to a second disk drive (not a second partition on the same drive!). There are all kinds of affordable remote backup plans that are good for this. Here are a collection of freeware backup tools to at least get you started: http://free-backup.info/backup-software.htm Good luck! |
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"Daiya Mitchell" wrote
That's why I actually don't have backups turned on. The high probability that I would hit ctrl-s twice before realizing I messed up makes it not worth dealing with. But that ensures that you won't have any backups at all. :-( Unless I'm mistaken, earlier versions of Word allowed you to do a double back up. When you saved a file, the earlier doc file would be renamed wbk and, if a wbk file already existed, that would first be renamed to wk2 or somesuch. I wish they would bring that back. -- Bob Kanyak's Doghouse http://www.kanyak.com |
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