P
Peter
Word has deleted a document I've been working on all week.
An error message popped up to the effect that there was a
problem saving the temporary file - retry did nothing,
cancel gave option to save as, which I did (whereupon Word
crashed completely).
Now, Word had already deleted the original file, and as it
had a problem saving the temporary file that it would
eventually rename as the original, both are gone. There
are no .tmp files on my disk whatsoever - and no documents
beginning with a tilda [~], or bearing a date stamp that
would lead me to any version of the document. I had set up
the various backup and autorecover options, but these are
now unchecked, and there are no .bak files on disk either!
The file location for autorecover is Application
Data\Microsoft\Word - but I no longer appear to have an
Application data directory at all. Haven't logged off or
rebooted since the Word crash.
The one thing that is on disk is a file called rescued
document.txt - this is full of junk (almost entirely
question-marks, with bits and pieces including the file
path, the most recent few words, and what appear to be
table of contents identifiers ). Have run it through a few
recovery tools, with no success. Microsoft Help/Technical
Database is no use.
Help?!?!!
An error message popped up to the effect that there was a
problem saving the temporary file - retry did nothing,
cancel gave option to save as, which I did (whereupon Word
crashed completely).
Now, Word had already deleted the original file, and as it
had a problem saving the temporary file that it would
eventually rename as the original, both are gone. There
are no .tmp files on my disk whatsoever - and no documents
beginning with a tilda [~], or bearing a date stamp that
would lead me to any version of the document. I had set up
the various backup and autorecover options, but these are
now unchecked, and there are no .bak files on disk either!
The file location for autorecover is Application
Data\Microsoft\Word - but I no longer appear to have an
Application data directory at all. Haven't logged off or
rebooted since the Word crash.
The one thing that is on disk is a file called rescued
document.txt - this is full of junk (almost entirely
question-marks, with bits and pieces including the file
path, the most recent few words, and what appear to be
table of contents identifiers ). Have run it through a few
recovery tools, with no success. Microsoft Help/Technical
Database is no use.
Help?!?!!