Is there any way of recovering a previously saved file in MS Word? Auteur du fil: Madeleine MacRae Klintebo
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Although this is about my son's homework, I have not marked is as off topic as a workable solution, if any, would be of use to translators.
Back story: my son sat up all night yesterday working on his paper and saved it before going to bed. Today he opened the file and has sadly enough hit Save before noticing that he's lost everything he did last night. As there was no power outage or similar, there doesn't appear to be any AutoSave.
When he told me, the first thing I ... See more Although this is about my son's homework, I have not marked is as off topic as a workable solution, if any, would be of use to translators.
Back story: my son sat up all night yesterday working on his paper and saved it before going to bed. Today he opened the file and has sadly enough hit Save before noticing that he's lost everything he did last night. As there was no power outage or similar, there doesn't appear to be any AutoSave.
When he told me, the first thing I did was save the file he now has, lacking all of last nights work, with another name. He didn't have "Always create backup copy" ticked and AutoRecover doesn't appear to be of any use.
Any and all suggestions appreciated. The actual data has to be there somewhere on the hard drive. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Found a solution | Jul 21, 2010 |
As my son's OS is Windows 7, the MS KB articles I found were only of limited use. But using these as a basis and the Search option, and only filling in the first part of the file name (no file extension), I managed to find an AutoSave file (.asd) saved at 2.45 last night (no wonder he's asleep on the sofa when I get home in the evening).
As a Mac user, I'm pretty impressed by Windows 7.
| | | | | About word files | Jul 21, 2010 |
Good evening,
I read the topic of the forum and maybe I can suggest a solution. You may either try and see if you can find the file under the item "Recent Files" or maybe, open ms word and expland the menu "File". Here you should see the last 4 files opened (so, 2 files with a similar name).
One thing I may suggest (and I always do this with important documents) is to save another copy of the file in a removable support (i.e. cdrom or usb/flash key).
Don't know if this may s... See more Good evening,
I read the topic of the forum and maybe I can suggest a solution. You may either try and see if you can find the file under the item "Recent Files" or maybe, open ms word and expland the menu "File". Here you should see the last 4 files opened (so, 2 files with a similar name).
One thing I may suggest (and I always do this with important documents) is to save another copy of the file in a removable support (i.e. cdrom or usb/flash key).
Don't know if this may solve the problem, but hope it can help
Best regards
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Madeleine MacRae Klintebo wrote:
As my son's OS is Windows 7, the MS KB articles I found were only of limited use. But using these as a basis and the Search option, and only filling in the first part of the file name (no file extension), I managed to find an AutoSave file (.asd) saved at 2.45 last night (no wonder he's asleep on the sofa when I get home in the evening).
As a Mac user, I'm pretty impressed by Windows 7.
... as an XP user, am pretty impressed by what a self-confessed Mac-user has done with Windows 7 - apparently with very little help from M$.
Tell son-shine, from me, that he owes you a big kiss
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