Need Help! How to retreive a temp file from Microsoft word.?

Question

I opened a document from Word of the internet and kept pressing save, and it kept saving, but when i closed it i could not find it again.

Pleeeeease help me. My grade depends on it. I can't even retrieve the temp file. it's hidden and i ask for search to find hidden files, but it does not come up.

Answer 1

If you worked on that file right out of the email, without saving it first, I'm afraid all your work is gone.

Opening a file and editing this way creates a temporary file for Word to use, then immediately deletes the file after Word is finished running. ALWAYS save an email attachment, then run the application on the saved document.

Sorry.

Answer 2

I wish I had better news for you but 2 things... First TEMP files are created by word based on a menu setting. They are by default created every 10 minutes that you have word open with a document on the screen. Second, TMP files for word are only left behind if word closes unexpectedly like if the computer is turned off while word is open with a document active or if you "end task" on the application suddenly - any sudden shutdown of Word EXCEPT a standard exit from the progrm.

You indicate that you "closed it" ... If you "close" from the menu or close by clicking the X in the top right corner and save or don't save the program has exited normally and the TMP file is removed. Again the temp file remains ONLY IF the program terminates unexpectedly and it can't be removed because the app didn't close gracefully.

Maybe it saved and you don't know where it is... What you could do is seach all of your hard drives using the windows search (Under the START button choose "Search"). Choose the All files and folders if it asks you. In the following screen choose "When was it modified" and enter a date range that the day you saved the file is covered under. It will find alot of files modified for that day but you want to SORT by the "TYPE" of document and see if you see a "*.DOC" file around the time you were working on the document.

Answer 3

Are you looking for it by name then? Probably need to search by date and start looking at all the files changed or created on that dated. Try opening another document from some place and press save as instead of save, should bring up where it is saving to as a default...should at least show you the path it would have been saving it to. Don't actually save the new document, just write down the path to take a look see for your other one. Just ideas..

Answer 4

open word and see where you open a file the last 4 doc that was open and saved will be on the bottom in a list or just re-download the thing it had to come from somewhere.
System Tools
Disk cleanup
and run it
Only click the temp folder
then when it get done searching
You can check the folder in the temp folders before delete them.
You may just open it when it was downloaded and did not even save it.

Answer 5

You need to search for .tmp files - if you know someone who is good with computers, he or she will be the best person to help (this task could require some expertise).

I've helped people with this problem before, but it was years ago and there may have been some changes to the way tmp files are stored (plus there are a slew of configuration changes you will probably need to make to see the file - Windows hides these files by default).

Answer 6

Hi.
Instead of searching your temp. file, do try to look for it with the following instructions:
Start > All Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Office Tools > Microsoft Office Application Recovery.

Good Luck.