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!

 

[Bill Foley]

When you open Word and open your file named, "plan2004.doc", Word makes a
temporary file called "~$plan2004.doc". When you close Word normally, this
file is automatically deleted. Sounds like your computer locked up (which
causes temp files to remain). The original file should still be in the same
folder as it was. This file, however, will not return anything since it is
just a temporary "marker" telling your computer that the file is already
open.

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Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint)
Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor - XP
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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!!

 

[Guest]

Hi Bill,

Yeah, I know that, but it is interesting that origin file iz no more available on the comp! It has disappeared, just that! There is the temp file only on the hard and nothing else with similar filename. Yeah, the Word has been crashing, and I'm affraid that the origin file is lost. If You have any idea of what I could try to do, please let me know.
Thx

 

[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 Everyone! Now, I can keep my job!