With Word 2007, the folder is C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Microsoft\Word
One correction to my response is if he chose not to save the file when exiting Word, it seems there is nothing to recover. If he closed Word with Task Manager, then the Autosave (or AutoRecover) information will be in a file with an extension of ".asd" such as ~WRA0000.asd. Double clicking on the file should start Word or else just copy the file and rename it to have a ".doc" extension. Larry -----Original Message----- From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Meyer Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Recovering lost Word file There is also a directory in which temp files produced by autosave get placed. I think this directory is specified in the registry, the last time I had to figure this out I googled. Checkout One Laptop Per Child project laptop.org --- On Tue, 7/22/08, Chris Dunford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Chris Dunford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Recovering lost Word file > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 7:27 PM > Can we assume that he looked in Recent Documents and in > Word's list of > recently opened files? > > > I refer to a client who lost a Word file. He said that > he either did > > not save them correctly or misplaced his edited > version since he can > > no longer find it. > > > ************************************************************************ * > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, > archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at > http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************ * ************************************************************************ * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************ * ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
