e-mail attachment

[Guest]

I sent myself a word document email attachment from another computer to my
vista home computer. After opening it I spent hours working on the document,
hitting the "save" icon, but never saving it as a file.

Now I'm getting the message that there is no path to this document. The
changes I worked on don't seem to be saved anywhere. I hate to lose all the
work. If I hit save, it must be saved somewhere, right?

Any ideas where I might find this document with my changes?

 

[Malke]

I sent myself a word document email attachment from another computer to my
vista home computer. After opening it I spent hours working on the document,
hitting the "save" icon, but never saving it as a file.

Now I'm getting the message that there is no path to this document. The
changes I worked on don't seem to be saved anywhere. I hate to lose all the
work. If I hit save, it must be saved somewhere, right?

Any ideas where I might find this document with my changes?

It's probably in a temp file. Assuming you still have the document open,
I think I'd Select All and Copy it to a new Word document. Then save it
in your Documents folder. What you are doing is a variant of how people
would try to work directly from a floppy years ago and then be
unpleasantly surprised when their file was corrupted and/or lost. So
don't do that again. Take the time to save the file first and work with
the saved file.

Type %TEMP% into the start menu search box, and hit enter. You'll
immediate be taken to the temporary files folder. You can see if your
file is there.


Malke

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Jim

You probably already know this, but you should never open an email
attachment from within the email.

If you open an email attachment directly from within the email message, it
will open OK in Word and you can edit and save changes, but if you don't use
the Save As and save the file on the hard drive somewhere, all of the
editing you performed will be lost.

It is 'possible' that the edited copy of the file may still be in a temp
folder somewhere, but I doubt this. Try searching the hard drive using the
name of the file.