How to recover a not saved file?

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When closing Word I accidentally clicked on "no" when it asked me if I wanted
to save my file. Is it possible to recover the file? I am desperate because
there's over a month of work in the file and I have no backup.
 
How can you have a month of work without ever saving the document? You
should still have the last saved version. As for the rest you will have to
re-type it. If you didn't save, there's nothing to recover!

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It sure is a bad month now, but compared to what happens everyday to all of
the folks in Iraq(including ours) this is nothing.
 
I started using "hibernate" to shut down my computer about a month ago, and
didn't save my work. Then in a blinding flash of foolishness I hit the "no"
key when I actually wanted to save my file. Quite a few lessons for me here.
Thanks for your reply.
 
exactly. smile and retype.




Hermes said:
It sure is a bad month now, but compared to what happens everyday to all
of
the folks in Iraq(including ours) this is nothing.
 
Retyping is not the problem. The research article was on alterity, the
philosophy of Levinas, and the essence of relationship.
 
With a philosophy so estimable, what's a month here or there? You've had
time to refine your thinking, and the re-typed piece will be all the better
for the delay.
 
You're a scholar, and have not yet trained your fingers to hit control-s
every time you pause to ponder?

And haven't learned to backup? Consistently and frantically? I have
academic friends who email CDs to different states to back up. These days,
emailing drafts to a Gmail account is a good method.

I feel bad for you, but take a lesson. I hope it's early in your career so
that you can benefit from it. Share the story so that others do as well.

Already, you've reminded me I haven't backed up for a while and do not live
up to my own strictures. I always save, though.
 

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