[dba-Tech] WORD:Retreiving lost documents

Francisco H Tapia my.lists at verizon.net
Wed May 5 17:35:50 CDT 2004


Thanks,
  Unfortunatly for my co-worker he never once clicked save once... and 
thus his lesson is gonna be learned HARD and HARD.  This is one of those 
lessons' that once it's happend to you, you tend to become extremly anal 
about saving and having backups.

in word (according to the help) if you hit save at least once you invoke 
auto-save. wich will create an .asd file in the application data\word 
directory and allow you to auto-retreive the file should for whatever 
reason have a crash.  I don't know what happens when a person purposely 
hits "NO" in the "do you want to save" prompt.

:| oh well ...

MartyConnelly said the following on 5/5/2004 2:19 PM:

> Word has NOT had an AutoSave function for a long time.
> See this site for tips.
>
> http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/AutomaticSave.htm.
>
> Enter the name of the file, with the extension "BAK". It maybe there.
> or there maybe an AutoRecover Save.asd file
>
> Francisco H Tapia wrote:
>
>> I'm far from being an "AVID" word user.  but a co-worker here was 
>> working on a document for over 3hrs and closed his application down 
>> (normally) and somehow he didn't hit save, possibly closing down many 
>> other documents at at time.  Is there anyway to revive this "lost" 
>> information?
>>
>> I know the lesson here, but ... :| it won't help my friend out. tips, 
>> links sites are all welcomed.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>


-- 
-Francisco





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