[GUI-Talk] Help!

[Starry Sky]

I learned this the hard way too!  Now, I have set the Save AutoRecover information to every 5 minutes.

You are usually prompted to save a file when you close it if you had not done so before or if something had changed since the last save.  It sounds like you have already checked the Recent Documents or My Documents folder.  Did you try a general search across the entire drive with the name that you saved it under?  If the list is super long, then sort the list by date modified to find the latest or date closest to when you closed it.

In certain situations like shutting down the compute with no opportunity to prompt, Microsoft does keep unsaved files for recovery in separate folder on your computer.  Depending on what version of MS Word you are using, Go to the File tab - Manage Document and select the Recover Unsaved Documents.  This should launch the recovery folder on your local drive.  Hopefully it is in there.

And, there is also a chance it could be in your general temp folder depending on how it was launched/viewed.

Hope this helps~

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Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2019 22:28:35 -0500
From: "Susan Tabor" <souljourner at sbcglobal.net><mailto:souljourner at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface,       GUI Talk Mailing
        List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org><mailto:gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [GUI-Talk] Help!


Hi, listers:



I was nearly done with a long document when I decided to save it.  I thought
it had saved, but apparently it didn't! (Oh no!) I used to see unsaved files
all the time; they used to pop up and then they stopped.  I can not find
this file.  It's not in my recents or in my documents.  Am I S.O.L.? Surely
there has to be a way to find something that didn't save correctly for at
least a few days.  Thanks for any help you can provide!

This is so frustrating!

Susan