IT Help Please

[madcampbell]

I have a centre inspection tomorrow..keeps me in business if we pass. I needed to write a report for it that has just taken me 4 hours!. I was going to do the final touches in the morning but have lost the file!!. This is very important to me so if you can help read on.....thanks

I opened an email attachment word doc and clicked save as and gave it a "new name" onto my desk top. I worked for 4 hours on it always clicking CTRL + S as I made changes. I had Media player running in the back ground and wanted to shut it. When I clicked close nothing happened so I clicked again. This shut word down and my document. I opened word and looked at recent files and it's not there or on the desk top. I have used the search facility for both the file name and the wording in the doc but it's not there. I went back to the original word doc attachment and clicked save as and the "New Name" was there as an option

Any help appreciated

Cheers
Mark

[sledge]

where do your word doc normally save too. could it of saved it into the word folder inside the program. try looking for it through my com, c drive, program files and it might be in one of the microsoft files

[nero279]

it might be worth a try, doing a search for recently modified documents

• click 'start'
• 'search'
• 'all files & folders'
• type '*.*' in 'all or part of the file name'
• select 'when was it last modified'
• 'specify dates'
• insert todays date in both to and from fields

Just a thought, might work might not.


eggs sucking teach maybe, sorry.

[madcampbell]

Thanks Gents

Unfortunately no Joy, I'm off to bed for a very early start!

Thanks for the suggestions

Cheers
Mark

[MattF]

Check your temp folder. Word may have created a tempfile in there.

[BushBuster]

Depending on the Email application will depend on where it will use as a temporary storeage area for attachments. Some will use C:\temp\ others C:\Windows\temp\ . Some will even use their own structure like C:\Program Files\The Bat!\MAIL\Bruce\Attachments.

Once you've located the likely storage area the next issue is the filename. Some Email applications when editing an attachment will save the file with a tilda ~ as a prefix, like ~plonker.doc or even ~plonker.tmp

So have another look around your system. Good luck