Can I recover six hours of work on a word document after I left my computer
for two minutes in which time windows restarted my computer for an update
without giving th option of saving my work. I was a total idiot and thought
that autorecovery every 5 minutes prevented this from happening. I'm on the
verge of tears.

You didn't save the document in six hours? If you have not saved the
document there is nothing to recover.
Autorecover is not foolproof and only recovers the documents in the event of
a crash.
Looks like you'll have to break out the handkerchief

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


burkito wrote:
Can I recover six hours of work on a word document after I left my
computer for two minutes in which time windows restarted my computer
for an update without giving th option of saving my work. I was a
total idiot and thought that autorecovery every 5 minutes prevented
this from happening. I'm on the verge of tears.

Is that entirely true? In my experience, if you had autorecovery on when Word
is killed for any reason, if you open Word later on it's own, it will find
the recovery files and offer the recovery process. I guess the 'legitimate'
Windows update process shutting things down may not be counted as a 'crash'
by Word, though, and the recovery files are ignored/cleaned-up? *shrug*. Oh
well.

Autorecovery files are a good idea, but, no it isn't foolproof or very clear
on how and when it works or even how to do the recovery when things go wrong.

If it ever goes wrong, try opening Word on it's own STRAIGHT AWAY (not
opening a file) and if Word can recover a file, it will. If you do anything
else with word (like trying to open a file) it will 'forget' about any
recovery that might have happened.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You didn't save the document in six hours? If you have not saved the
document there is nothing to recover.
Autorecover is not foolproof and only recovers the documents in the event of
a crash.
Looks like you'll have to break out the handkerchief

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


burkito wrote:
Can I recover six hours of work on a word document after I left my
computer for two minutes in which time windows restarted my computer
for an update without giving th option of saving my work. I was a
total idiot and thought that autorecovery every 5 minutes prevented
this from happening. I'm on the verge of tears.

Any forced closure of Word is considered a crash for this exercise, but as
you confirm, autorecovery is not foolproof. It is, however more consistent
with Word 2003 than earlier versions.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Big Dave UK wrote:
Is that entirely true? In my experience, if you had autorecovery on
when Word is killed for any reason, if you open Word later on it's
own, it will find the recovery files and offer the recovery process.
I guess the 'legitimate' Windows update process shutting things down
may not be counted as a 'crash' by Word, though, and the recovery
files are ignored/cleaned-up? *shrug*. Oh well.

Autorecovery files are a good idea, but, no it isn't foolproof or
very clear on how and when it works or even how to do the recovery
when things go wrong.

If it ever goes wrong, try opening Word on it's own STRAIGHT AWAY (not
opening a file) and if Word can recover a file, it will. If you do
anything else with word (like trying to open a file) it will 'forget'
about any recovery that might have happened.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You didn't save the document in six hours? If you have not saved the
document there is nothing to recover.
Autorecover is not foolproof and only recovers the documents in the
event of a crash.
Looks like you'll have to break out the handkerchief

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


burkito wrote:
Can I recover six hours of work on a word document after I left my
computer for two minutes in which time windows restarted my computer
for an update without giving th option of saving my work. I was a
total idiot and thought that autorecovery every 5 minutes prevented
this from happening. I'm on the verge of tears.

Except that this apparently isn't a "forced closure." It would appear that
AU, when set to fully automatic, cavalierly answers No to Word's questions
about saving documents.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Any forced closure of Word is considered a crash for this exercise, but as
you confirm, autorecovery is not foolproof. It is, however more consistent
with Word 2003 than earlier versions.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Big Dave UK wrote:
Is that entirely true? In my experience, if you had autorecovery on
when Word is killed for any reason, if you open Word later on it's
own, it will find the recovery files and offer the recovery process.
I guess the 'legitimate' Windows update process shutting things down
may not be counted as a 'crash' by Word, though, and the recovery
files are ignored/cleaned-up? *shrug*. Oh well.

Autorecovery files are a good idea, but, no it isn't foolproof or
very clear on how and when it works or even how to do the recovery
when things go wrong.

If it ever goes wrong, try opening Word on it's own STRAIGHT AWAY (not
opening a file) and if Word can recover a file, it will. If you do
anything else with word (like trying to open a file) it will 'forget'
about any recovery that might have happened.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You didn't save the document in six hours? If you have not saved the
document there is nothing to recover.
Autorecover is not foolproof and only recovers the documents in the
event of a crash.
Looks like you'll have to break out the handkerchief

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


burkito wrote:
Can I recover six hours of work on a word document after I left my
computer for two minutes in which time windows restarted my computer
for an update without giving th option of saving my work. I was a
total idiot and thought that autorecovery every 5 minutes prevented
this from happening. I'm on the verge of tears.

Well that's pretty impressive
Thankfully I never let update automatically do anything.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Except that this apparently isn't a "forced closure." It would appear
that AU, when set to fully automatic, cavalierly answers No to Word's
questions about saving documents.


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Any forced closure of Word is considered a crash for this exercise,
but as you confirm, autorecovery is not foolproof. It is, however
more consistent with Word 2003 than earlier versions.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Big Dave UK wrote:
Is that entirely true? In my experience, if you had autorecovery on
when Word is killed for any reason, if you open Word later on it's
own, it will find the recovery files and offer the recovery process.
I guess the 'legitimate' Windows update process shutting things down
may not be counted as a 'crash' by Word, though, and the recovery
files are ignored/cleaned-up? *shrug*. Oh well.

Autorecovery files are a good idea, but, no it isn't foolproof or
very clear on how and when it works or even how to do the recovery
when things go wrong.

If it ever goes wrong, try opening Word on it's own STRAIGHT AWAY
(not opening a file) and if Word can recover a file, it will. If
you do anything else with word (like trying to open a file) it will
'forget' about any recovery that might have happened.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You didn't save the document in six hours? If you have not saved
the document there is nothing to recover.
Autorecover is not foolproof and only recovers the documents in the
event of a crash.
Looks like you'll have to break out the handkerchief

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


burkito wrote:
Can I recover six hours of work on a word document after I left my
computer for two minutes in which time windows restarted my
computer for an update without giving th option of saving my
work. I was a total idiot and thought that autorecovery every 5
minutes prevented this from happening. I'm on the verge of tears.

Me, either. It has to ask me politely before it downloads anything, and then
it has to ask again before it installs the downloaded updates and again
before it restarts the computer (which I don't let it do; I do that
manually).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Well that's pretty impressive
Thankfully I never let update automatically do anything.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Except that this apparently isn't a "forced closure." It would appear
that AU, when set to fully automatic, cavalierly answers No to Word's
questions about saving documents.


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Any forced closure of Word is considered a crash for this exercise,
but as you confirm, autorecovery is not foolproof. It is, however
more consistent with Word 2003 than earlier versions.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Big Dave UK wrote:
Is that entirely true? In my experience, if you had autorecovery on
when Word is killed for any reason, if you open Word later on it's
own, it will find the recovery files and offer the recovery process.
I guess the 'legitimate' Windows update process shutting things down
may not be counted as a 'crash' by Word, though, and the recovery
files are ignored/cleaned-up? *shrug*. Oh well.

Autorecovery files are a good idea, but, no it isn't foolproof or
very clear on how and when it works or even how to do the recovery
when things go wrong.

If it ever goes wrong, try opening Word on it's own STRAIGHT AWAY
(not opening a file) and if Word can recover a file, it will. If
you do anything else with word (like trying to open a file) it will
'forget' about any recovery that might have happened.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You didn't save the document in six hours? If you have not saved
the document there is nothing to recover.
Autorecover is not foolproof and only recovers the documents in the
event of a crash.
Looks like you'll have to break out the handkerchief

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


burkito wrote:
Can I recover six hours of work on a word document after I left my
computer for two minutes in which time windows restarted my
computer for an update without giving th option of saving my
work. I was a total idiot and thought that autorecovery every 5
minutes prevented this from happening. I'm on the verge of tears.