Lost changes upon PP crashing, even though saves have been made

[Niklas Ramquist]

I originally tried to post this in a thread from one year ago, but
this being the first time I use google groups I couldn't quiet figure
out how to reply properly So I apologize if this becomes double
posted.

(the post that I am refering to can be found here:
http://groups.google.se/group/micro...&q=disappeared&rnum=11&hl=en#8d0fc8fa1cd30534)

My client just had a similar problem to the one described here. He had
been working on a presentation for about 3 hours, saving every few
minutes since he's had bad experiences with powerpoint crashing
before. Suddently powerpoint crashes, and on the harddrive the file is
shown as last edited this morning when he started working on it.
There's no temporary files anywhere on the computer related to it, no
recovery appears when powerpoint is restarted.

The setup is an 1.8Ghz iMac G5, the white flat ones, with 1gb of ram,
running OS X 10.3.9, PowerPoint 2004 11.3.5 (070411), about 75gb free
hd space.

The Fast saving option is selected, auto-saving is set to 10 min, and
the crash occured when he was saving the file, and he did get a crash
message.

This is a pretty serious issue that needs a fix immediatly.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Niklas

I find that altering the file name on each save helps to avoid this scenario

e.g. 1st save file name is mypresenation-v01
2nd save is mypresentation-v02

then if the power should go during a save - you can always revert to the
last version (admittedly losing you last edits - but not all your work)

see
Recovering a corrupt presentation
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00108.htm



cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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