Reopen a temporary file as the original one is lost

[Bosse]

Due to some odd behaviour the original file was emptied but there is still a
temporary file with name ~WRD0301 and type= TMP file. How can I open that one
and check if it contains what I did lose?

 

[JAY]

Hi Bosse,

I, amazingly, have just had the same problem. I was working on a complex 60
page Word 97 document containing many tables and some graphics divided into
sever sections, when I decided to change the orientation of one of those
sections to Landscape. All of a sudden virtually all the document's contents
disappeared. I immediately decided to close the document without saving and
opened it again. Unfortunately it appears to have autosaved and the opened
file was the same - all but 5 pages remained of my original 60. I checked in
Explorer and the doc filesize had reduced from over 4.5Mgs to about 8kb! The
dumped .tmp file on the otherhand is still about 4.5 <Mgs.

So if anyone can give an answer to your question about opening such a file
in a usable form I would be most grateful too. I use Windows XP by the way.

Thanks,

 

[Terry Farrell]

Rename it by changing the extension to .doc and it may open in Word.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

There is no way what you described could have happened as there is no such
thing as "auto save." See
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/AutomaticSave.htm

Rather than close without saving, you would have been much smarter to use
Undo.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Terry Farrell]

Your problem sounds different and I guess that it is lost. There's no way a
4.5 MB document is going to be found in an 8 kB temp file. The most common
reason for that loss is working with a removable drive (such as a flash
drive) or accidentally pressing Ctrl+A instead of Shift+A thus replacing
everything with the next keystroke.

 

[JAY]

Thanks a lot Terry, that solved my problem. I hope it also solved "Bosse's"
too. He was the original poster in this thread.

J.

 

[Ferdinand 1]

Rename it by changing the extension to .doc and it may open in Word.