Missing document - even though it was saved... Need help

[Guest]

My wife was working on her document all day Sunday and kept saving the document every few minutes. Auto-save was also set to 10 minutes. At the end of the day she e-mailed a copy of the doc to herself. Today she opened the document that she e-mailed to herself and found that 90% of content is missing. The document name has a [1].doc after it. In addition that version of the file shows that it was saved on the 3rd when in fact the document was edited on the 11th. So this is a huge mystery becasue there were no system crashes or shut downs. Anyone have any ideas why this happened? This is Word 2000 btw.

Andre

 

[Graham Mayor]

There is no autosave function in Word. If your wife didn't manually save the
document it has not been saved. See
http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm.
You have not explained your wife's filing system, but it is possible that
there are two versions of her document kicking around. A search of the hard
drive would be advisable.
My guess is that the document hasn't been saved and that something went
wrong with the e-mailing process. Check if there is an attachment to the
outgoing message that contains the document.

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[Word Heretic]

G'day "Andre" <[email protected]>,

Scan the hard disks for that filename - maybe she saved her work
somewhere else, or maybe she emailed the wrong copy.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic
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