i need to locate a word file rec'd via an email attachment...

[Please help me]

which i opened, modified and saved by clicking the save file icon, multiple
times over several hours. I failed to use the save as... function to specify
a location. Someone please help me find this document, it represents many
hours of work which cannot be duplicated.

 

[Graham Mayor]

You should never open Word attachments directly from e-mail - however it
*may* be possible to recover your changes. See
http://www.gmayor.com/outlook_attachments.htm

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[Please help me]

thanks...but, i'm using outlook express. followed your directions but, no
temp internet file folder. am looking now under temp folder instead but,
well...yikes!

 

[Please help me]

follow-up, under the temp folder, there are a umber of files... some many of
which have a .tmp ending. i've noticed that a few of these files were last
modified yesterday at 07:52, which is about the time i began modifying and
saving my lost file. When I attempt to move or open these .tmp files they
won't open because it is being used. the other .tmp files can be moved and
opened without a problem. I'm sure my file is sitting on this desktop
somewhere. I just can't locate it. Is there a standard file location these
things flock to???

 

[Graham Mayor]

It will not have the tmp extension but doc (or docx for 2007). I don't use
Outlook Express for e-mail and do not know if it clears its temporary
folders, but if it doesn't then you *may* be able to locate it by re-opening
the attachment and use save as(but don't actually save it). Where does it
offer to save the file by default. If that is a temporary file location as
indicated in the addresss block of the save as dialog, then that would be
the location to search. There is no guarantee that you can recover a
document.

Incidentally had you been using Outlook 2007 for e-mail, it would not have
let you save in the temp folder - one of the nice things about that
application.

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