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Lost overnite, bibliographies in 7 docs created over months
Working two semesters on several exegesis papers. First document created in
Oct 2005. Copied bibliography from most recent doc each time started a new paper for a starting point. Lots of saves and backup files. A couple of weeks ago began new paper with most current biblio. Saved many times. Added new content as recently as 3 days ago. Noticed yesterday the bibliography (only) was missing from most recent document and its backup, and from the last most recent document and its backup. Today I discovered the biblio also is missing from the original document and its backup, and every intermediate document. What could have happened? |
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Lost overnite, bibliographies in 7 docs created over months
Any chance you are using the Master Document "feature?"
-- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- 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. "FSS" wrote in message ... Working two semesters on several exegesis papers. First document created in Oct 2005. Copied bibliography from most recent doc each time started a new paper for a starting point. Lots of saves and backup files. A couple of weeks ago began new paper with most current biblio. Saved many times. Added new content as recently as 3 days ago. Noticed yesterday the bibliography (only) was missing from most recent document and its backup, and from the last most recent document and its backup. Today I discovered the biblio also is missing from the original document and its backup, and every intermediate document. What could have happened? |
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Hi Fran,
You should not be using the Master Document recovery methods unless you were using Master Documents. It doesn't sound or look like you are. Did you have this all in one big document or was it a bunch of smaller documents that you combined somehow? A section break, in and of itself, should not be causing you to lose parts of your document. I hope you have learned to make sequential backups. Without using the Master Document feature, I don't know of anything you would be doing in a current document that would change backups or historical copies. -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- 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. Dear Charles Kenyon, Thank you for answering my question (below) on the Word user group about losing my bibliography(ies). I never heard of a master document, but I'm assuming from the instructions you linked at mvps.org that my Normal template is acting like a master document and is corrupted. I suspect the problem occurred when I put a Section Break (I didn't know exactly what one was, but I thought I might need it) in front of the Bibliography in my most recent document. I'm in Word2003, but I'm not surprised that this is all related. I'm going to try John McGhie's approach to recovery, but I also may have to find as many source documents as I can and re-enter - a big hassle because some were browsed at Rice University library and some on the internet. Oh, well - at least I've learned something new and important. Thanks again. Fran Steele FSS "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... Any chance you are using the Master Document "feature?" -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- 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. "FSS" wrote in message ... Working two semesters on several exegesis papers. First document created in Oct 2005. Copied bibliography from most recent doc each time started a new paper for a starting point. Lots of saves and backup files. A couple of weeks ago began new paper with most current biblio. Saved many times. Added new content as recently as 3 days ago. Noticed yesterday the bibliography (only) was missing from most recent document and its backup, and from the last most recent document and its backup. Today I discovered the biblio also is missing from the original document and its backup, and every intermediate document. What could have happened? |
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Lost overnite, bibliographies in 7 docs created over months
I have located a Bibliography folder at this location that appears to contain
all the references created across all documents using the reference wizard. Perhaps this folder is still available and contains your data/documents. look in: c:\documents and settings\"your user name" application Data\Microsoft\bibliography When I copied this folder to a different computer, opened word 2007, and opened a blank word document, clicked on references and manage sources, the references were all there. Hope this helps you. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Any chance you are using the Master Document "feature?" -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- 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. "FSS" wrote in message ... Working two semesters on several exegesis papers. First document created in Oct 2005. Copied bibliography from most recent doc each time started a new paper for a starting point. Lots of saves and backup files. A couple of weeks ago began new paper with most current biblio. Saved many times. Added new content as recently as 3 days ago. Noticed yesterday the bibliography (only) was missing from most recent document and its backup, and from the last most recent document and its backup. Today I discovered the biblio also is missing from the original document and its backup, and every intermediate document. What could have happened? |
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Lost overnite, bibliographies in 7 docs created over months
I have located a Bibliography folder at this location that appears to contain all the references created across all documents using the reference wizard. Perhaps this folder is still available and contains your data/documents. look in: c:\documents and settings\"your user name" application Data\Microsoft\bibliography When I copied this folder to a different computer, opened word 2007, and opened a blank word document, clicked on references and manage sources, the references were all there. Hope this helps you. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Any chance you are using the Master Document "feature?" -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- 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. "FSS" wrote in message ... Working two semesters on several exegesis papers. First document created in Oct 2005. Copied bibliography from most recent doc each time started a new paper for a starting point. Lots of saves and backup files. A couple of weeks ago began new paper with most current biblio. Saved many times. Added new content as recently as 3 days ago. Noticed yesterday the bibliography (only) was missing from most recent document and its backup, and from the last most recent document and its backup. Today I discovered the biblio also is missing from the original document and its backup, and every intermediate document. What could have happened? |
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