I have a writer who accidently closed a Word 2011 file that she was working on, and clicked “Don’t Save.” She thought she was closing another file. Result: she’s lost about five hours of work, roughly 2,000 words, and needless to say, is quite distraught.
She did have Word’s “Save AutoRecover every 10 minutes” option checked in Word’s preferences. However, because she closed the file, it appears that that file got deleted. We use Time Machine to back up her computer, and I was able to find hourly backups, but even in those I could not find an AutoRecovery file in the location that Word’s help file says it should be (in Microsoft User Data in Documents folder). Does anyone have any ideas of other options to try to recover this file. And no, she apparently did not save it to disk during the entire time she worked on it today; the latest one I can find has a modified date of yesterday afternoon. I do have DiskWarrior and Data Rescue programs if you think they might be able to somehow find a deleted autorecovery file (if autorecovery is even working). Thanks in advance for any suggestions. _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
