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amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 250
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 7:33 pm: |     |
Also posted this in the help folder, but thought I might have luck here too . . .
PLEASE, can't someone help me? I was just working for HOURS on an important document on MS Word, and something terrible happened -- I went to close it, and when it asked me if I wanted to save my changes I SAID NO! Of course I meant yes, YES, please god, yes! -- but somehow that's just not what happened. So, is there any hope I can recover what I've lost? It's got to be there somewhere, right? |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 252
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 9:07 pm: | |
I posted in "Please Help", good luck |
Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5277
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 9:14 pm: | |
Under preferences do you have "Always create backup copy" checked or "Save AutoRecover info every __ minutes"? |
amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 252
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - 10:02 am: | |
Brett, thanks for the advice, but the ms office application recovery screen came up empty, nothing to recover.
Dave, no to "create back up copy" (obviously have to change that!) and yes to "allow background saves" and "save AutoRecover info every 10 minutes". Is there hope? |
ashear
Citizen
Username: Ashear
Post Number: 705
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - 11:32 am: | |
I think that when you shut down normally (as opposed to having Word crash) it deletes the auto recover files (I know that is the way WordPerfect works). |
amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 258
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - 12:10 pm: | |
That is NOT what I want to hear!
What do you think, Dave, am I totally out of luck? |
Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5285
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - 1:03 pm: | |
Search your hard drive with document's name and see what turns up. |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 254
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - 1:17 pm: | |
Check your temp directory. It's located under your login name under documents and settings on c:\ |
amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 260
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - 2:02 pm: | |
No luck, either way. Well, thanks anyway, guys. Looks like I have to start over on my project, I'm running out of time.
Any suggestions on how to prevent such a thing from happening in the future? Other than "save as you go", of course -- maybe some setting I can change so that I can get access to recently changed documents, even if I neglect to save the changes? |
sac
Citizen
Username: Sac
Post Number: 734
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - 2:21 pm: | |
I found the following in the "Help" for MS Word 2000. I don't think it gives you much more than what has already been posted here though. As noted above, it appears that the autorecover won't help you in the kind of situation you experienced although it is invaluable for the unresponding program/power failure/etc types of problems.
Topic: About preventing loss of work
Recovering unsaved changes with AutoRecover: Microsoft Word can automatically recover unsaved changes to documents if the program stops responding or there is a power failure. When AutoRecover is turned on, the changes you make are saved at set intervals in a separate, temporary recovery file. Then, if you have to restart Word or your computer without saving your work, Word automatically opens the recovery file. The recovery file contains your changes up until the last time AutoRecover saved the document. For example, if you set AutoRecover to save every five minutes, you don't lose more than five minutes of work. How to change how often you want Word to save documents automatically and recover a document that was saved automatically.
AutoRecover is not a replacement for regularly saving your documents. If you choose not to save the recovery file after Word opens it, the file is deleted and your unsaved changes are lost. If you save the recovery file, it replaces the original document (unless you specify a new file name).
Creating backup copies automatically: You can set Word to automatically save a backup copy each time you save a document. The backup copy provides you with a previously saved copy, so you have the current saved information in the original document and the information saved prior to that in the backup copy. Each time you save the document, a new backup copy replaces the existing backup copy. Saving a backup copy can protect your work if you accidentally save changes you don't want to keep or you delete the original file. How to have Word save a backup copy of a document and open the backup copy.
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lseltzer
Citizen
Username: Lseltzer
Post Number: 1735
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - 2:42 pm: | |
The answer is really simple. Save your file periodically. Ctrl-S, Alt-F-S, the save icon, whatever. I'm a professional writer and whenever I stop typing for whatever reason I save, over and over again. |
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