Ok, I had this file which i had saved to my Flash Drive as I needed to work on it on another computer. I plugged the flash drive in a said Send To>My Documents. I then took out the flash drive and started working on the file in My Docs. I had it perfect, so I saved it and turned off my computer. Then I just turned on my computer, opened My Documents and it is gone! I have searched everywhere. In the Recycle Bin, used the search setting, looked in like a million files, but is has just disappeared. Unfortuantly I don't have System Restore enabled either. Please someone needs to help me! Is there any other way to find a file that has literally disappeared?
2007-08-06 19:03:15 · 8 answers · asked by ? 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
firstly, system restore restores you system, not your data files. You say you took out your flash drive after you copied the document to the computer, so there's no way that it would try to resave to there is there? So, with the flash drive out, you opened the copied file from My Documents, made amendments and re-saved. Did you click on the save icon so that it sved with the same name and would automatically save to the same place from where you opened it, or did you click on File, Save As? in which case it could possibly have gone somewhere else. I know you said you searched for it which is perplexing. Sometimes these impossibilities do happen for no apparent reason. I presume you have also looked in Recent Documents. If you click on File, is it listed at the bottom of the submenu as usually the last few files opened are displayed there? If it shows, as it should, what happens when you try to open from there?
OK so you've searched looking for it by name and nothing has come up. How about doing another search, this time putting in *.* so it searches for any type of file, but confine the search to, say the day before and the day after and see what comes up. Possibly it saved as a tmp file. can't really think of anything else but hope you can retrieve. In any event, not all is lost because you have the original on the flash drive. In future, when working on any document, save early on, make sure autosave is down to perhaps 2 or 3 minutes, but don't rely on it and as you are typing, just use Ctrl S as part of the typing process to keep the document continually updated.
2007-08-10 05:11:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try doing as search for files that were created in the last day as Alex's Mom says it may be saved under a different name to what you think
2007-08-06 19:30:58 · answer #2 · answered by Alan F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go into the libraries section of 'my documents' on your computer, and type in the name of your coursework, and see if anything comes up. If that doesn't work, open up PowerPoint, click the open button and basically rake through EVERYTHING until you find it. I wish I could be more helpful, I know exactly how you feel.
2016-05-20 03:45:41 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Open up word and click on 'file'. At the bottom of the drop down you should see the last files you had open. Just click on the one you are looking for.
It probably tried to save to the location you opened the file from.
2007-08-06 19:27:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi,
You should try recovery software. I believe this one's free:
http://officerecovery.com/freeundelete/
Also...sometimes WORD files save as the first line of the document. Did you try searching for obscure titles like that?
Good luck!
2007-08-06 19:23:04 · answer #5 · answered by alexs mom 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
system restore wont help. the title of the file might have changed, do a *.doc search or a *.txt search.
2007-08-06 19:13:02 · answer #6 · answered by agello24 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
search for the file in windows explorer (the folders)
2007-08-06 23:12:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may have been saved to your flash drive. ????
2007-08-06 19:08:13 · answer #8 · answered by Robert W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋