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can lost doc be recovered from system?
I just purchased a laptop w/Vista OS. I have a Western Digital external USB
hard driive connected where I save all of my Word Docs. I installed Office XP on this laptop w/Vista OS and began editing a doc. I worked many, many hours on the doc and a message appeared telliing me it could not save a .tmp file. The document is now lost. I saved it about every 3-5 minutes while working on it. It is no longer on my external WD hard drive. I hope it is still recoverable somehow from the computer. I have searched everywhere for both the name of the original file AND the name of the .tmp file that is lost. I then copied the entire WD HD contents to the desktop and it copied all files except this .tmp file. That is how I was able to get the name of the file, when I was informed that it could not be copied to the new location. Can anyone please advise how I can search on the computer for a backup copy of this file. Needless to say, I began revising the doc as soon as I got the computer before enabling any backup system! -- LuLu |
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can lost doc be recovered from system?
You've set the folder options to show system and hidden files? Searched for
*.tmp and ~*.* temporary files? *.wbk backup files would be created if "Always create backup copy" were checked in "Tools Options Save" ... but unfortunately it isn't by default. Still, better late than never: It only "backups" the next-to-last (old) version, but that's better than nothing. And I clean out *.wbk and temporary files and *.asd (autorecovery) files from time to time. Regards, Klaus "LuLu" wrote: I just purchased a laptop w/Vista OS. I have a Western Digital external USB hard driive connected where I save all of my Word Docs. I installed Office XP on this laptop w/Vista OS and began editing a doc. I worked many, many hours on the doc and a message appeared telliing me it could not save a .tmp file. The document is now lost. I saved it about every 3-5 minutes while working on it. It is no longer on my external WD hard drive. I hope it is still recoverable somehow from the computer. I have searched everywhere for both the name of the original file AND the name of the .tmp file that is lost. I then copied the entire WD HD contents to the desktop and it copied all files except this .tmp file. That is how I was able to get the name of the file, when I was informed that it could not be copied to the new location. Can anyone please advise how I can search on the computer for a backup copy of this file. Needless to say, I began revising the doc as soon as I got the computer before enabling any backup system! -- LuLu |
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