Recovering after reverting back to saved

[Jeremy]

A coworker of mine closed out of a document she was
working on. When she opened it back up it asked if she
wanted to revert back to saved. She clicked Yes, and
then all the work she had done was erased. Any that is
what she told me she did, don't know how factual it is
because she's not too computer savy.

Is there a way to recover the previous file.

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

She was fairly accurate, except that she must not have actually closed the
document. Revert to saved is the message that comes up when you try to open
a doc that is already open. Clicking yes is usually a bad idea, it sends
you back to what you had the last time you hit Save.

I think it's gone. If she had Always Make Backup enabled in Tools |
Options, Save, you can look for that backup and see if it is any more
recent, but it's unlikely to be.

DM

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Go to File > Open > (in the "File of type:" pop down box, select "Recover
Text from Any File"),navigate to where the document is located and open to
see if it works. No gurantees though.

Also, check in your temp files (C:\temp) maybe another copy was backed up
there).

Andre Da Costa
Jamaica W.I.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Word does not 'back up its files' in the temp folder. It merely creates a
few working files there that are not copies of the document, and after
closing Word they should be cleared. Neither is C:\temp a standard Windows
folder. Current Windows versions by default set the temp files in the user
folder structure. Earlier versions had it as a sub folder of Windows.

No help is better than wrong help!

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