Auto Recovery? Seems like I dont' have one. Help! Word Crashed

[Vicki]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

Hi,
I was working on a document that I had previously saved. I wanted to check a word in the Thesaurus and all of a sudden Word froze and then the spinning circle (as always) and then... Application Not Responding.
It would not come out of it after several minutes so I hit Force Quit.
Well, when I opened the document it lost about 38 pages of work!
I tried to look in the Autorecovery folder but no luck.
There were 4 documents in there- one from May, one from June, one from last week and then one from 5 hours before the crash.
Nothing current.

I've had nothing but problems since I got Word 2008 but Pages still is not as good, so I am "screwed".

I don't know what to do. Is there any way to find this file? Can it be recovered with Data Rescue? Is there anything simpler to do?

Please help. I know I pressed the save button at least a few times in that time period because it is a habit of mine from Word 2004.

But 3 hours with NOTHING saved?

What to do?

Please help.

Thank you.
I've searched the forum and found nothing on this.

I appreciate any advice.

 

[cannie]

Unfortunately, I have always found autorecover to be almost completely useless in every version of word, mac or pc. Lately I've noticed that when it does work it tries to recover a document that is older than the last one I saved making it look like I've lost more work than I have.

This does makes sense in that the autorecover is set to every 5 minutes and I often save more than that but the program should be able to compare times and know that the most recent version was not the autorecover version.

My recommendation is to develop the same "cmd-S twitch" that I have and save it yourself after each and every significant edit.

 

[MC]

And saving it yourself after each and every significant edit is such good
advice too. I save a fresh version after every 30-45 minutes -- I can't
*stand* having to re-do deep-thought work.

I have Cmd-S mapped to a mouse switch and click after every paragraph,
and have Time Machine work its wizardry every hour.

 

[John McGhie]

Agreed!! Sadly, I have been campaigning for AutoSAVE for ten years, and
have still got no result at all.

They still can't understand that Auto Recover does not protect from file
corruption, let alone from "old" saves

Cheers

Unfortunately, I have always found autorecover to be almost completely useless
in every version of word, mac or pc. Lately I've noticed that when it does
work it tries to recover a document that is older than the last one I saved
making it look like I've lost more work than I have.

This does makes sense in that the autorecover is set to every 5 minutes and I
often save more than that but the program should be able to compare times and
know that the most recent version was not the autorecover version.

My recommendation is to develop the same "cmd-S twitch" that I have and save
it yourself after each and every significant edit.

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