[Ossie]

I used a recovery file to finish up a project. I saved it several times and
closed out. When I go to the directory the older copy is there, not the one
I worked on. When I clicked on the recovery file it says it will open the
original document, so I thought that was what I was working in.

What in the world was I saving during the 2-3 period of working on the
document?

Ossie

[Peace]

I think when word recovers a document, it is given a differnt name - and it
will ask you to save it - did you click on save or did you "save as" and gave
it a new name - if you clicked on save - it has been saved under the name it
was given after the recovery - it could be in the same folder under a
different name or - go to start - my recent documents and find it.

Hope this helps


"Ossie" wrote:

I used a recovery file to finish up a project. I saved it several times and
closed out. When I go to the directory the older copy is there, not the one
I worked on. When I clicked on the recovery file it says it will open the
original document, so I thought that was what I was working in.

What in the world was I saving during the 2-3 period of working on the
document?

Ossie

[Ossie]

Yes it gave it the *wpk file name. I found it in word tools application but
the file was not readable. It showed a file size of 7 meg and that the time
I last saved it, but it seemed like the word document "text" itself was not
saved. There should be a safeguard against saving recovered files,
especially when it says it is the original file. I will be more careful next
time.

Thanks

Ossie

"Peace" wrote:


I think when word recovers a document, it is given a differnt name - and it
will ask you to save it - did you click on save or did you "save as" and gave
it a new name - if you clicked on save - it has been saved under the name it
was given after the recovery - it could be in the same folder under a
different name or - go to start - my recent documents and find it.

Hope this helps


"Ossie" wrote:

I used a recovery file to finish up a project. I saved it several times and
closed out. When I go to the directory the older copy is there, not the one
I worked on. When I clicked on the recovery file it says it will open the
original document, so I thought that was what I was working in.

What in the world was I saving during the 2-3 period of working on the
document?

Ossie