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EMERGENCY... is it possible to recover?
It just happened to my boyfriend.. he was saving all his work in WORD on his
floppy... it showed it was saved into the floppy then he closed the Word file. He dragged a dropped the new file into his hard drive and overwrote all the old file with the newest file from the floppy. When he opened the file... the newest file was gone!! All the files in the floppy and hard drive are the old one. Is there any way to restore it? Thank you |
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Its gone. For future reference...
If you want to be able to use your documents, when working with in Word, act as if your floppy drive does not exist. (This applies to CDRW/CDR drives as well.) Don't use Word to: Open a document on a floppy Print a document on a floppy Edit a document on a floppy Save a document to a floppy (not even a copy) Word regularly trashes documents on floppy drives! Instead, work on the document using your hard drive. Copy it back and forth using Windows. I know that for some with shared computers (libraries) this is a tough prescription. All I can recommend for that is to use a brand new formatted disk each time you save and don't do any editing. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "EMERGENCY.. NEED HELP!" EMERGENCY.. NEED wrote in message ... It just happened to my boyfriend.. he was saving all his work in WORD on his floppy... it showed it was saved into the floppy then he closed the Word file. He dragged a dropped the new file into his hard drive and overwrote all the old file with the newest file from the floppy. When he opened the file... the newest file was gone!! All the files in the floppy and hard drive are the old one. Is there any way to restore it? Thank you |
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