Lost document

[kasheku]

send an email to hilary, and make sure you mark it as classified.

[Wimbly]

Originally Posted by kasheku

send an email to hilary, and make sure you mark it as classified.

I said it disappeared not it got a year long run on FOX's top slot.

[whatduh]

Try running a word search instead of a file name search also include the suffix.


Read this: http://office-recovery.com/word.asp

[philomath]

Originally Posted by Wimbly

So I've been working on a long word document and emailing it to myself regularly. thank Christ I did that because I lost an hour's work this morning.

Saved the doc and it just disappeared from the desktop (where it's usually kept). Not in the bin, not in any folder if I search.

I can redo the work (it's just editing) but don't really wanna. Any other places I might look for it?

Sorry, I did not see this earlier. I understand this is probably very late or a moot point ATM. There is however, a pretty simple course of action, and might help some folks in the future.

Open control panel/ folder options/ under view tab, uncheck hide extensions for known file types. Now search for (.doc) in the file search engine of the OS. Some OS's have terrible search features and you will need to click features like
"see more results" then choose the entire computer in the left column or choose advanced and search that way to get a more complete search. Some search engines you may even have to set under its search features to search system files as well.

Anyway that (.doc) should find every word doc in most places on the terminal.

EDIT:: OOh, when you are done. Go back to the folder options and check the "hide extensions for known file types" back. you do not want to rename a extension of some file by mistake and lose its file association. that would certainly suck and take a min to fix.

[BABELcorp]

This is odd. Did you try going into C:\users\(your name)\desktop? And you checked the recycle bin but there was nothing there? My old work computer was very slow sometimes and would occasionally not 'recognise' new files. I would have to open a new folder, which was simply the contents of the desktop, to see a new file.

My suspicion here is that you never actually saved the file or saved it to a completely different folder by mistake. This has happened to me too. Computers are based on the principle that files rely on each other without randomly disappearing, unlike humans who have brains which fuck up all the time. Anyway I would do a good antimalware sweep of your machine to look for any unsavory programs in the background just in case it happens again.

[3rd3y3]

It's still in your head lol


Rewrite it