I have lost a document and need advice on retrieving. I created a rough draft and emailed it to myself in Yahoo...made changes away from home and emailed it again to myself in Yahoo...when I got home I went to Yahoo downloaded the attachment, and continued to make changes for 2-3 hours. After completion, I hit the save(disk) button I did not do save as, as I thought it would update the changes of the original file created on my desktop. I do not know where this file could have possibly been saved...Also I have Word setup to autosave every 10 minutes...where are those files saved? Does anyone have any idea where this file could be tucked away on my hard drive. Please advise. I've put in so much work on this.
Or search for *.* using a known keyword from the document
Depending on how you have MS Word set up
MS Word can save things you are working on whilst they are "on screen"
When working on a document you have e-mailed to yourself, I do this all the time. You must save it on your hard drive, floppy disk or flash drive before working on it.
It is easiest to simply add verion 2 to the file name
document.doc decomes document v2.doc
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Ceri
Then when working on the document you can save to the new location.
It may not show up as .tmp file if you opened and edited with Word. You should search the hard drive for the name of the file you emailed to yourself without any extension. If it was a Word doc, chances are it's safed as .doc in the browser cache or in the \temp folder on your hard drive.
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Posted December 2nd, 2006 16:00