I open a powerpoint attachment, then save, can't find file!

[jimnginah]

My son did a lot of work on a powerpoint he emailed himself from school.
Then he hit the save button, closed it and went to bed. I went to email it
back to him and couldn't find it on the computer anywhere. I opened the
original, from the email, hit save, and tried to find it on my computer.
Nowhere to be found. It does not show up in the recently opened files, or
when I search files edited today. When I click "Save As" it goes to my
documents, so I looked there, it's not there. He is going to have to redo
the whole presentation unless someone can help.
Powerpoint 2007
Thanks.

 

[Echo S]

When you save from email, it usually saves in a Temp directory someplace.
You'll want to do a search on the computer for *.PPT files and see if it
turns up.

 

[Jaime]

Files opened from an e-mail normally open in a temporary location unless you
choose "Save As" and place them somewhere else.

Did you mean, you chose "Save As" and saved the file to "My Documents" or
you just looked there?\

You can go to Start, Run, type %temp%, and hit Enter -- this will show you
the contents of your temporary folder; poke around there and see if you find
the file. It may not have the exact name.

When you searched for the file, where you seeing hidden files and folders?

 

[diane]

Another way is to open up an email attachment and hit "Save As" and make note
of where the doc is being saved. You'll find this by clicking on the
drop-down of the Save in option. For example, mine is c > documents and
settings > userid > local settings > temporary internet files > OLK41 --
yours might be different.

 

[laceysaywhat]

I don't know when this was posted, but this same thing happened to me yesterday and i figured it out moments ago. I tried the majority of the suggestions above, and none helped! however, when you go to the email:
-click attachmen
-download and open
-on my PC a window called "downloads" opens and says the names of the attachments
-right click on attachment
-save

i hope this works for anyone else who needs it too!

 

[jmag]

Yes, please try to find it in the temp folder. Searching globally for *.pptx or *.ppt can do the job, but notice that in recent versions of PowerPoint this is found by looking for ppt*.tmp (notice the tmp extension). I'd suggest to review this article How to recover PowerPoint from temp folder.