HELP! Where is my file??

[ibcarolek]

I was editing a file that I opened directly from Outlook 2007. I
would periodically save it (not save as). I seemed to happily save
and then I closed the file. When I went to find it, I can't! I have
done searches on my PC's harddrive, I have looked in the directory C:
\Documents and Settings\Carole\Local Settings\Temp to no avail. I can
only find reference on how to change the save as location - but not
where my online saves went! Help please! Where is my file (please
don't tell me it's gone....)

 

[Guest]

Most likely still in the message

 

[Brian Tillman]

I was editing a file that I opened directly from Outlook 2007. I
would periodically save it (not save as). I seemed to happily save
and then I closed the file. When I went to find it, I can't! I have
done searches on my PC's harddrive, I have looked in the directory C:
\Documents and Settings\Carole\Local Settings\Temp to no avail. I can
only find reference on how to change the save as location - but not
where my online saves went! Help please! Where is my file (please
don't tell me it's gone....)

NEVER edit an attachment without saving it somewhere you control, and then
edit the copy, not the attachment. See if this helps:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/securetemp.htm

 

[Gordon]

I was editing a file that I opened directly from Outlook 2007. I
would periodically save it (not save as). I seemed to happily save
and then I closed the file. When I went to find it, I can't! I have
done searches on my PC's harddrive, I have looked in the directory C:
\Documents and Settings\Carole\Local Settings\Temp to no avail. I can
only find reference on how to change the save as location - but not
where my online saves went! Help please! Where is my file (please
don't tell me it's gone....)

Well I opened an attachment and I couldn't find the temp file either.

Lesson learned I hope?

 

[ibcarolek]

Well I opened an attachment and I couldn't find the temp file either.

Lesson learned I hope?

Painfully so.

1. The attachment is still in the email, but it does not contain the
edits.
2. It was cool looking up the place in the registry file where the
temp files are kept, but I could not find the directory even after
making sure there were no hidden files.
3. The Outlook tools are great! they found the location the files are
kept!! I was soooo happy!. But when I looked at the file, there were
no edits saved. I became sad again. Perhaps relooking at the
attachment overlaid what my saved results were? Doesn't really matter
now -
4. I'm back to doing the changes again. I will never again edit a
file from within Outlook.

Thank you for all your help - I wish it had turned out differently.

 

[ibcarolek]

Well I opened an attachment and I couldn't find the temp file either.

Lesson learned I hope?

Painfully so. The file is gone.

In sum:

1. The attachment is in the original email - unmodified.

2. It's cool looking at the registry to find the file location - only
to find that there is no such path on my computer, even after making
sure hidden files are not kept hidden.

3. But that's ok. I downloaded the outlook tool at
http://www.howto-outlook.com/products/outlooktools.htm, and YEAH! it
was able to find the directory I couldn't see and it found the file -
Yahoo!!!...or so I thought.

4. When I looked at the file, the changes I made weren't there. When
I closed the file, its date changed to today's date, even though I
didn't save it again. I fear perhaps reopening the attachment from
the original email overlaid it (but I didn't save it!!)? I'm just
really bound to do 4 hours of work all over again (did I say this was
a painful lesson??)

5. Microsoft's answer depressed me even more: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278188/en-us

I'm now recreating - hopefully it will be better and faster to do than
the first time around. Thank you all for your help & support.
Hopefully this will help someone else - never again do an online edit
and save! It may not get saved - despite all appearances.