Help about ~$!

[Guest]

I do not know how, but my .doc file somehow converted into file with characters ~$ at the begining of the origin file name, like this:
plan2004.doc converted into ~$plan2004.doc

Now, when I open this file, I see nothing but some unintelligable characters! The origin conten has gone!!
I want to recover my origin file, but I don't know how? Why did this happen?
What does this characters ~$ mean?
The file is very, very important to me, so please, somebody help!

 

[Guest]

I tell folks this "tilde dollar sign" file stores all your revisions while you in the document so that your Undo and Redo buttons work. It only "lives to serve" until you save and close the document. Your plan2004.doc document could probably be found if you did Start > Search > Files and Folders and typed in the name.

 

[dragonrealm]

When you open that word doc also, does it bring up a
dialog to recreate the lost document? Word usually has
that ability. If they originally said no you should still
beable to open the ~$ doc and "save as" to the new file
name.

-----Original Message-----
I tell folks this "tilde dollar sign" file stores all

your revisions while you in the document so that your
Undo and Redo buttons work. It only "lives to serve"
until you save and close the document. Your plan2004.doc
document could probably be found if you did Start >
Search > Files and Folders and typed in the name.into file with characters ~$ at the begining of the
origin file name, like this:

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't believe this is correct. The ~$<filename>.doc file is just the owner
file. Although Word does create temporary files that may contain revisions
(especially if you have Fast Saves enabled), this is not they. For more, see
“WD: How Word for Windows Uses Temporary Files†at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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I tell folks this "tilde dollar sign" file stores all your revisions while

you in the document so that your Undo and Redo buttons work. It only "lives
to serve" until you save and close the document. Your plan2004.doc document
could probably be found if you did Start > Search > Files and Folders and
typed in the name.

 

[Guest]

Hi Everyone,

I did it, I got me out of this problem. I can't believe it was so simple!
Well, here it is. As we all know, there has to be a .tmp file that Word makes, and thx God this is very useful in case of Word (or comp) crashing. It is true that I only had to deal with 2 files: ~$plan2004.doc and plan2004.doc. And there was no other .tmp file, at frst sight. In fact, there was, but I had to dig it from the hard (God knows where I found it!), and it was hidden attributed. And, that is right, this file is named something like this ~wrd0002.tmp. It is slightly different from original (formated adds were not the same), but the content is untouched, and that is the most important. The rest was very easy...formating the content...save as...and that's it.
Thx Suzanne, You have give me idea to try to find a .tmp file one more time.
Thx Everyone! Now, I can keep my job!