OK. If it will make you feel better I can and will tell you it might not
all be lost. However, for all practical purposes, it is unless you saved
the file. Sorry.
It might be that some new file bits were committed to disk in temporary
files. You could navigate to folder properties and turn on the options
to see system and hidden and protected files. Then, search document
directories for files with tmp extension or starting with ~ or $. You
could try installing a Hex disk editor and searching for bits of the
file. However, you have to know more than a little about file format and
how to interpret hex fields. After all that, alas, I can offer scant
hope. There would have been bits in memory that were lost soon after the
system locked. With the correct tools available at the time and with
quick action, some might have been saved but that point, as miniscule as
it was at the tine, is now approaching nothingness.
All-in-all, it would be faster and easier to recompose the file.
Tom
MSMVP
Windows Shell/User
