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amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 249
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 7:20 pm: | 
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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: 251
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 8:54 pm: |
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This is how you do it it word dies on you, it may work in your instance.
On the Microsoft Windows Start menu, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Office Tools, and then click Microsoft Office Application Recovery.
In the Application list, click the program or document that is not responding.
Do one of the following:
To attempt to recover the files you were working on, click Recover Application or Restart Application.
If you just want to close the program, and lose recent changes to the files, click End Application.
The error that caused the problem can be reported to Microsoft for use in improving future versions of the program. Click Report problem or Don't report problem.
Open the Office program.
Review the files listed in the Document Recovery task pane, and decide which to keep.
How?
If a file has [Recovered] in the title it is usually a file that contains more recent changes than a file with [Original] in the title.
If you want to view what repairs were made to a file, point to the file in the Document Recovery task pane, click the arrow next to the file's name, and then click Show Repairs.
If you want to review the versions that were recovered, open all of the versions and save the best one.
For each file you want to keep, point to the file in the Document Recovery task pane, click the arrow next to the file's name, and then do one of the following:
To work with the file, click Open.
To save the file, click Save As, and then enter a name for the file. By default, the file is saved in the same folder as the original file. If you use the same name as the original file, the original is overwritten. When you see a message asking whether you want to replace the existing file (with the changes you made up to the last time you saved the file), click Yes.
When you have opened or saved all of the files you want to keep, click Close in the Document Recovery task pane.
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amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 256
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - 11:32 am: |
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Thanks, Brett, no luck though. Anyone else have any ideas? I'd try just about anything at this point . . . |
sac
Citizen
Username: Sac
Post Number: 731
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - 12:31 pm: |
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amandacat,
I hate to be a pessimist, but since you closed out in an orderly fashion (albeit not what you wanted to do), it is likely that it was not saved. In my experience the "recovery" process mentioned by Brett only works when your editing session was interrupted in some fashion - usually by a system "hang" or "crash".
I have done what you did a number of times and wanted to kick myself for it, but I never found a way to get back what I had done ... always had to go back to the last saved version. That is where having autosave turned on can help. I also try to save before printing, closing or switching documents for this reason, even when I know that I will be continuing with it momentarily. That little save icon on the toolbar (looks like a floopy disk) is handy for this purpose. These tips won't help you know, but for the future ...
Sorry to bear bad news. |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 75
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - 12:52 pm: |
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If you have the Save Autorecovery File option turned on, you may have a file on your hard drive with an *.asd extension. (The autorecovery file option is set in Tools-Options-Save Tab). Do a search on the hard drive for *.asd. If you don't find that, try *.wbk -- if a backup file was created, I believe it will have that extension. If both of those fail, you could also do a search on your hard drive by date -- and use the date you worked on the document. You could have a temp file in there...possibly. Good luck!
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;pl;316950} |
joy
Citizen
Username: Joy
Post Number: 112
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - 1:16 pm: |
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May I suggest you search all files ending in .tmp modified today - it's a long shot but you may find it there. |
NRL
Citizen
Username: Nrl
Post Number: 220
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 12:02 am: |
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Amanda cat, I think that has happened to many of us. Do yourself a favor and set your auto save to every 2 minutes or something. Its in the tools/options window.
Waiting for the Springfield Ave renaissance, or something just like it.
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amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 266
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 10:24 am: |
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Thanks so much for all your suggestions, everyone -- the document is officialy lost forever, alas, but my faith in MOL remains stronger than ever!
xo,
-amandacat |
NCJanow
Citizen
Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 990
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 10:32 am: |
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Plus, the rest of us learned the importance of setting to autosave! Not much consolation Amandakitty..but your mistake ended up being a public service!
NCJ aka LibraryLady
On a coffee break..or something like it.
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