[dba-Tech] WORD:Retreiving lost documents

Francisco - many moons ago there was a function in Word to put the text the user was working on (ie. in RAM) in a document called .asd (where asd = auto save document).

I have no idea whether this still is the case but it would be worth searching for any files with an extension of .asd.

Kath
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Francisco H Tapia 
  To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues 
  Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 8:35 AM
  Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] WORD:Retreiving lost documents


  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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