Auto Save & Temp Files

[David Harrison]

Hi, I am running Microsoft Office 2003 on windows Xp.

I took my laptop home from work and still had a document open and carried on
working on it. However, i obviously lost the connection from the office.

When i went to save it in My Docs something happened and lost the file.

Will there be an autosave version in a tempoary file?

Anyone Help?

Thanks
David

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi, I am running Microsoft Office 2003 on windows Xp.

I took my laptop home from work and still had a document open and carried on
working on it. However, i obviously lost the connection from the office.

When i went to save it in My Docs something happened and lost the file.

Will there be an autosave version in a tempoary file?

There's no autosave feature in Office; there's something that's (IMO)
mislabeled to make it seem that there is. The feature saves information that
the apps can use to recover what you were working on if there's a crash.

You may be able to put that to use though.

Look in your temp folder for files with a .TMP extension.

You can ignore any that are older than the time/date you started working on the
document at your office.

One by one, rename the files to change the .TMP to .DOC or .PPT or whatever's
appropriate for the document type, then try opening them. With luck, one will
be what you're after.

To find your temp folder, do Start, Run and type %TEMP% into the text box, then
click OK. Your temp folder will open.

And in future, it'd be wise to close any apps before sleeping/hibernating the
laptop. But you knew that. <g>