Temporary Doc Lost on Schoolwork FINAL HELP

browneyedsquirrel

okay, so I worked on this word file in the lab at school and then sent it to myself in my email. I downloaded it from my email once at home and continued to work on it, periodically saving it. I guess I forgot to change the file name/location and so now it is saying the file does not exist or is not accessible.

If anybody has any suggestions on how to restore/retrieve the document now that I have closed it and apparently lost it, I would greatly appreciate it. I'm really in no position to have to do all that work over again. HELP PLEASE!

Drez

browneyedsquirrel wrote:

okay, so I worked on this word file in the lab at school and then sent it to myself in my email. I downloaded it from my email once at home and continued to work on it, periodically saving it. I guess I forgot to change the file name/location and so now it is saying the file does not exist or is not accessible.

If anybody has any suggestions on how to restore/retrieve the document now that I have closed it and apparently lost it, I would greatly appreciate it. I'm really in no position to have to do all that work over again. HELP PLEASE!

Not sure what to tell you...I think when you open up a .doc attachment directly from an email in Outlook it puts the base file in one of MS Office's temp directories (you know those DIRs with long strings of characters/letters?) and if you save it, it saves the file into that temporary directory. But it vanishes after a bit.

browneyedsquirrel

Drez how do I find the temp files on my comp.... I'm willing to try anything at this point....

The Space Pope

C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxx\Local Settings\Temp

xxxx is your account.

try to get a File recover program to recover or salvage the file if your pc already wrote over it.

browneyedsquirrel

by account you mean?

Janin

browneyedsquirrel wrote:

by account you mean?

Whatever name you chose when you set up the computer. I don't use Windows much, but your best part is probably some sort of file recovery utility.

Ruckus

Did you open it from MS Outlook? Have you tried opening it from Outlook again?

Drez

browneyedsquirrel wrote:

Drez how do I find the temp files on my comp.... I'm willing to try anything at this point....

Are you on WinXP? I would try doing a search within My Documents. Use the "text appears within file" option in the search and throw in a phrase from your paper or some keywords.

If nothing comes up, I think you are screwed. I'm sorry, and that sucks, but there's really nothing else you can do at that point as far as I know.

Re-save the file to a real directory instead of just double-clicking from Outlook and then go out of Outlook and open that file.

Thanatos

Go to your "Documents & Settings" folder on your main hard drive, find the folder for the account you were using, open it, go to "tools," then "Folder Options," on the "view" tab, click on the bubble next to "show hidden files and folders." Open up the "Local Settings" folder, then look for it in the "Temp" folder.

iTunesIsEvil

... No need to show hidden stuff or click through folders. Click Start => Run => then type "%temp%" (no quotation marks of course) and hit enter. You'll be in your accounts temp directory without any hassle.

browneyedsquirrel

so far no luck.... I guess it'll be back to the drawing board tomorrow after my final exam.

Deswa

This might work, attach a random file to an email, email it to yourself. Open that file up and click open. Open it up and then click save as, it should start up at your temporary folder. From there you can back track your way to file the temporary files are stored into.