Recovering a file I thought I saved, but had opened from my email

Martin

Basically title sums it up. Someone sent me a file to work on, I spent a while doing my thing, did Ctrl-S, closed the program and went to email it back. Of course, it's not on my computer, cause I had only opened it from my email. I've done this before, it's so annoying.

Anyway it's somehow on my computer somewhere? Thanks,
Martin

Bob Sapp

Which email client? Have you checked your temp folder?

Lukin

If it's Outlook, there's a special temp folder that your file might be saved to.

Navigate to your Temporary Internet Files folder. Make sure you have hidden files and folders turned on. You should see a subfolder called OLKxx (where the xx may be random numbers).

If you don't see it there, go back to your email and open up an attachment. Do a File > Save As. The OLK folder I mentioned earlier should open up in the "Save file as" dialog. You can find your folder in this save dialog and drag it out to your desktop.

Martin

It's Gmail. I'm guessing I'm out of luck. And yes, I've checked the temp folder, nothing there. I use firefox if that matters.

Martin

Haha, I'm a genius. I went to Firefox's download manager, clicked open on the file, and for some reason it opened it with all the changes I had made.

This can be deleted.