attachment gone walkabout - where is it saved

[Guest]

I sent a colleague a Word file as an attachment. He opened it from the email
in Outlook (all on Office 2003), worked on the document (saving it all along)
and now cannot find the file with changes. He didn't resave in a new
location, simply used 'save' in Word. Where would this updated version have
been saved? I've searched all through the temporary files, Word history, and
the folder with the original file (which is in a shared network folder).
Opening the original attachments gets us an unaltered version.

Any suggestions for where this updated file might be, unless is it somehow
lost completely? If he closed down the email, he would have been prompted
about saving changes to the open attachment - if he'd been saving in Word,
would those changes have been saved automatically, or lost if he closed the
email?

Thanks!

 

[Roady [MVP]]

It is in a special SecureTemp folder. Read the following article on how to
locate it as it is different for each computer;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/securetemp.htm

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

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I sent a colleague a Word file as an attachment. He opened it from the email
in Outlook (all on Office 2003), worked on the document (saving it all
along)
and now cannot find the file with changes. He didn't resave in a new
location, simply used 'save' in Word. Where would this updated version have
been saved? I've searched all through the temporary files, Word history, and
the folder with the original file (which is in a shared network folder).
Opening the original attachments gets us an unaltered version.

Any suggestions for where this updated file might be, unless is it somehow
lost completely? If he closed down the email, he would have been prompted
about saving changes to the open attachment - if he'd been saving in Word,
would those changes have been saved automatically, or lost if he closed the
email?

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Hi Roady,

I have a similar problem but the file I'm looking for is an Excel
spreadsheet. I tried the article but this only seems to locate Word files.
Any idea how the same applies for an xls?

Thanks