Recovering disappearing Word Docs
 

My girlfriend has just been typing an essay for her course. It needs to be finished by 3.

She has foolishly forgotten to save, and Word just disappeared from her screen.

Document recovery hasn't worked.
Searching her pc for all the temp docs hasn't either.

It was called New Document (3) but there is no sign of it.

Surely it must exist as a temp file somewhere?

Any help?

Thanks a lot.

Re: Recovering disappearing Word Docs
 

Did you have autosave on?
http://skp.mvps.org/wrd00015.htm

Re: Recovering disappearing Word Docs
 

If autosave was turned on you might find a file in
C:\Documents and Settings\yourlogonname\Application Data\Microsoft\Word

Re: Recovering disappearing Word Docs
 

I seem to have lost a document I worked on for three hours. The auto recover is set to auto save every 5 minutes. Where can I find my file?

Re: Recovering disappearing Word Docs
 

This guide might help you:

http://office-recovery.info/word.asp