Re: [MacGroup] Urgent Question about Word AutoRecovery

how to recover autosaved word documents on mac

Re: [MacGroup] Urgent Question about Word AutoRecovery

Dan, I’m sure this won’t help, I gather your saying the “autosave” does not apply IF the file has not been “saved” first? That being the case then I gather there is not much that can be done outside a data recovery program. Look at the link from DiskWarrior, don’t know if this will help.

Re: [MacGroup] Urgent Question about Word AutoRecovery

Ed, No, but those instructions are for the Windows versions 2010, 2013 and 2016. She’s using Mac version 2011 and I cannot find any Manage Document option in that, or anything that looks like it would do the same thing. > On Nov 15, 2017, at 4:02 PM, Ed Wiser wrote: > >

Re: [MacGroup] Urgent Question about Word AutoRecovery

Has she done this?

Re: [MacGroup] Urgent Question about Word AutoRecovery

The problem with searching Time Machine (or iCloud) for the file itself is that she didn’t save the file at any time during the day. I can find it easily on Time Machine, but it’s the version that was saved yesterday afternoon. Which is why I’m hoping that there might be some remnant of an

Re: [MacGroup] Urgent Question about Word AutoRecovery

Dan, I guess she doesn’t use iCloud as a backup of her desktop and documents? That would solve her problem…. I also don’t use Microsoft enough to know how the backups work, I don’t understand why she needs to look for the AutoRecovery file, why not search for the file itself on TimeMachine?

[MacGroup] Urgent Question about Word AutoRecovery

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