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Can't find saved document
I was working on an essay at school, and uploaded it on the internet so I
could work on it when I got home. I uploaded it to my computer at home to work on it. When I uploaded it, I had two options: Open or Save I chose open. As I was working I saved multiple times throughout the process. When I went to work on it again this morning, I couldn't find it! Does anybody know where it would have saved it? |
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Can't find saved document
It would have been saved in a temp folder, where there may be some remote
chance of finding it again. If it's still on your File menu, you may be able to open it. Or here's another trick to try. Find another message with an attachment (a different one) and Open the attachment, then choose File | Save As, and note the folder where Word proposes to save the file. You'll probably have to go Up One Level several times to get the complete path (which will something like C:\Documents and Settings\ProfileName\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files), and you'll see that there are multiple subfolders; you may have to explore all of these to find your file. More efficient, probably, would be to use Windows Search (making sure you're including hidden files and folders) to search for either the filename or some unique text string in the document. But the overwhelming likelihood is that you have lost the document, which is why we don't advice working on files opened directly from attachments. It's okay (aside from risk of macro viruses) to open a document if you just want to read and/or print it, but if you are going to be editing it, always, always save it first. -- 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. "Nicole" wrote in message ... I was working on an essay at school, and uploaded it on the internet so I could work on it when I got home. I uploaded it to my computer at home to work on it. When I uploaded it, I had two options: Open or Save I chose open. As I was working I saved multiple times throughout the process. When I went to work on it again this morning, I couldn't find it! Does anybody know where it would have saved it? |
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Can't find saved document
When I lose something on my computer, I go to start -- search and look for
it there. Sometimes things get saved to strange places. -- Karen Hunter "Nicole" wrote: I was working on an essay at school, and uploaded it on the internet so I could work on it when I got home. I uploaded it to my computer at home to work on it. When I uploaded it, I had two options: Open or Save I chose open. As I was working I saved multiple times throughout the process. When I went to work on it again this morning, I couldn't find it! Does anybody know where it would have saved it? |
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Can't find saved document
If the file was an Outlook attachment, and you said Yes in Outlook to saving
changes to the message, then reopen the message, right-click the attachment, and save it to a non-temporary location. Chances are excellent that your changes are intact. If that doesn't get you the file... it was probably saved into a temp folder. It might still be there, it might not. These folders and files in them can be hard to locate, depending on which version of Windows you're using. Here, when opening a file in Vista (it was an Outlook attachment), using Word 2007, the opened file is stored in C:\Users\Herb\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temp orary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\XOY7T0KJ. I have over a dozen different folders in Content.Outlook with names similar to XOY7T0KJ. The files in that folder tree (Temporary Internet Files) are all hidden/system files, and rather resistent to searching, even when I enable the display of hidden/system files. If you're using Word 2007 in Vista, look for such a location in Temporary Internet Files. When opening a similar attachment in Windows XP, the location is similar, but the top folder is Documents and Settings instead of Users. If the file was in an FTP location and accessed using Internet Explorer or some program other than Outlook, the local temporary location will be different. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Karen Hunter" wrote in message ... When I lose something on my computer, I go to start -- search and look for it there. Sometimes things get saved to strange places. -- Karen Hunter "Nicole" wrote: I was working on an essay at school, and uploaded it on the internet so I could work on it when I got home. I uploaded it to my computer at home to work on it. When I uploaded it, I had two options: Open or Save I chose open. As I was working I saved multiple times throughout the process. When I went to work on it again this morning, I couldn't find it! Does anybody know where it would have saved it? |
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