How do I recover deleted recover files?

[Amber]

I was working on a school report and word froze. When the program came back
up the recover box had my file in it. I pressed the little arrow on the side
of the file name to open it back up and it said "It cannot delete the file".
It then proceeded to kick me out of word. I opened word back up and there was
no more recovery box. I searched on this website and I've read that I have to
look in the folder. I found the folder but nothing is in there. I have also
tried looking in my recycle bin and I have failed to find it after numerous
tries.

 

[Steve Fernandes]

Amber,

Presuming you have Win2k or above and Office 200+.

Goto this folder

C:\Documents and Settings\sferna19\Application Data\Microsoft\Word

where sferna19 is your own username, (thats just mine).

Anyways if its not in there.

Look into getting a tool such as undelete. or recover.

You will have to find out if your hd is NTFS or FAT 32. (easily done by
right clicking on the c drive and then properties).

But ya check it out they might have trial versions of that stuff. But
recovering that data is not 100% guranteed especially if you have been
saving additional information on the harddrive, cause the old data would
have been overwritten if it had no filename (i.e was deleted).


Anyways try that out and let me know how it works.

Steve

 

[Beth Melton]

Since the AutoRecovery files are temporary files and Microsoft Word
deletes them if you do not elect to recover the file then you may not
be able to get it back. Temporary files do not go to the recycle bin
and I doubt a delete recovery program would do the trick since it
wasn't deleted using a "typical" delete process.

Unfortunately you may want to go back to the last save of your file
and pick up where you left off.

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