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I downloaded an essay for editing earlier today, worked on it for roughly four hours, and the program crashed. Many changes have been made since the download.
I haven't once saved the document so it's in the temporary files. Is there a way to recover the file with the saved changes?
Did you download the file to a folder on your Desktop (or somewhere else)? Word should have created a temporary file, it should also ask you to restore it if you start it again. – slhck – 2011-05-06T04:56:54.957
1Also, see if you can find it here:
/Users/username/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office version AutoRecovery/Autorecovery save of filename
– slhck – 2011-05-06T04:59:27.747I opened the temporary file directly from word, so the file was not on the desktop, but the temporary file folder. I believe word doesn't save if it's in that file? – Paddy Johnson – 2011-05-06T05:00:43.130
There is an autorecovery file saved at 12:36. I assume this means that if I force quit word, I'll be able to recover it? – Paddy Johnson – 2011-05-06T05:08:56.837
I don't know when you last opened/quit Word and what time you have. But yes, I'd try that (and maybe make a copy of the autorecovery file first). I just posted this as an answer, maybe it works. – slhck – 2011-05-06T05:10:51.547
Thank you. I couldn't save the temp file because the program had crashed, but I did recover my file. I very much appreciate the advice. – Paddy Johnson – 2011-05-06T05:18:15.117