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Yesterday at work a coworker emailed me a 90 page document to format for her. I downloaded it and began working on the document. I saved it periodically, but I never did Save As, which means I was saving it to a temporary location.
I got 80% of the way through the document last night. I turned off my computer.
Of course it's gone this morning. My question is, is it still saved somewhere on my computer but with a broken path? Or is it gone for good?
I just want to be sure it's gone before I do all that work over again. Posts: 537 | Registered: Jul 2001
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What program were you using? To my understanding the difference between "Save" and "Save As" is that with "Save" you are saving over the original, but with "Save As" you can give it a new name or save to a different location (or both). Using "Save" will be a permanent save over the original document, which then is not retrievable (except by special means, perhaps). Using "Save As" is when you want to keep the original and keep the new version, as well.
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Try to look into your personnal profil and in Document and setting. I suggest you to make a research on your disk (if you have a network disk) and into the local disk.
I think he must still be in your computer.
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Word should list the last few documents you've been working on. Click on File, and they should appear just above Exit. The file should still be on your computer, most likely in a temporary folder somewhere. Those things don't disappear when you turn the computer off, so the path won't be broken, though.
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Hmm. If you clicked "Save" it should have been saving your changes to the original document. Do you mean you "Turned off" your computer by not properly shutting it down? In any case, the file should still be on your computer under the original name including all your changes. Hope you find it. Posts: 326 | Registered: Aug 2004
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The original document was a download, so it was never saved anywhere permanent.
I just searched my computer for a Word document with the name of the original document. It wasn't found.
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You can try in a last hope to look all the ".doc". Maybe the name is not exactly what you think.
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And what if my company email is Novell Groupwise and not Outlook? Would it do a similar thing, Farmgirl?
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Well, one way you can check is re-open the file from the e-mail. With it open, immediately go to FILE-SAVE AS and see where it tries to default to.
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Dang it. Yesterday's file is there, but with none of my changes. I guess it's back to the beginning, then.
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Yes, I know you're kidding. But you made me smile, which makes me want to send you chocolate anyway. I haven't done much smiling this morning.
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Your best bet is to replicate the situation and see what that can tell you. Send yourself an email with a doc attachment then open it and change it somehow and save it. Then see where that file gets stored (possibly by using a save as after you save it). It's possible that your work is still floating around in a temp folder somewhere.
The thing that worries me is that if you followed kat's advice, it's not unlikely that you actually saved over the copy that had the work you did.
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It doesn't do that on my computer - every file saved gets a different name, even if it is the same file.
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Well, MrSquick -- I think Kat (and me) were trying to say to not actually SAVE it again (or save over it) but to hit the SAVE dialog box to see where it defaults to -- to see the path it recognizes as being the previous save directory when checking "save in" But not to follow through and actually re-save it.
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Yes. I followed Kat's and Farmgirl's advice and saw the file from yesterday, "Compliance.doc," sitting in that folder. Word suggested that I save the new one as "Compliance_1.doc." So I wouldn't have saved over it, even if I had saved the new one.
The problem was, Compliance.doc looked exactly like it had when I downloaded it.
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It wouldn't be the saving in Word that would cause the problem, but rather the downloading the file again. If the email program you use doesn't alter the folder or name that a temp file would be saved to, donwloading the same file will overwrite the earlier one. You can probably check to see if this occured by checking the last date modified property of that file. If it has yesterday as the date, your work is probably stored somewhere else, but if it has today, you likely wrote over it.
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