Hi guys,

Sorry for this - I've had a stinker and have no time on my hands.

I worked 12 hours on a document (saved it a few times), but then my laptop
totally died!

I never managed to restart it and it has gone to heaven. Obviously Word
never got the chance to do an autorecover.. but I did pull out the hard-drive.

Inspecting it from another PC, I found the .tmp file which is 2 hours more
recent than the Word file.

Just opening the tmp from notepad or word just brings up jibberish though
(there were a lot of drawings in it). Is there any way I can persuade my
current PC (which I've now copied all relevant files to) to treat it as a
proper recovery file and get me all the goodies that I saved??

Thanks for any help!!!

Basil

Probably not. The temp files that Word creates are not necessarily working
copies of the document. The last saved version is the only one you are
likely to recover.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Basil wrote:
Hi guys,

Sorry for this - I've had a stinker and have no time on my hands.

I worked 12 hours on a document (saved it a few times), but then my
laptop totally died!

I never managed to restart it and it has gone to heaven. Obviously
Word
never got the chance to do an autorecover.. but I did pull out the
hard-drive.

Inspecting it from another PC, I found the .tmp file which is 2 hours
more recent than the Word file.

Just opening the tmp from notepad or word just brings up jibberish
though (there were a lot of drawings in it). Is there any way I can
persuade my current PC (which I've now copied all relevant files to)
to treat it as a proper recovery file and get me all the goodies that
I saved??

Thanks for any help!!!

Basil