restore document that has disappeared windows 2010

I think Mukherjee's first point is asking if you were editing a document attached to an email, say in Outlook. The point he is making is that docs attached to emails MUST be first saved to the HD before editing them.

I think you are probably out of luck, but here are a few more things to try:

First thing I'd suggest is downloading and installing Everything from Void tools. It is a file name search tool that I use dozens of times a day. Use it to look for the document file name. With a little luck you will find your updated copy is some strange location. The most likely location is your profile TEMP folder. You can get directly to it by typing "%TEMP%" (without quotes) in the RUN dialog or START menu search box and hitting <ENTER>. Windows Explorer will open with the TEMP folder displayed.

Here are several techniques to try and find "lost files":

Find Lost Document - Lost File -  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827099

     http://word.herbtyson.com/?p=154

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316951

    - Recuva, DiskDigger http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15120/get-back-that-photo-picture-or-file-you-deleted-accidentally/

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/What-are-the-system-recovery-options-in-Windows-7

http://www.pcworld.com/article/220355/musthave\_tools\_and\_tricks.html#tk.nl\_sbx\_h\_cbstories

    Downloads to Recover Your Files http://www.pcworld.com/article/215852/downloads\_to\_recover\_your\_files\_and\_save\_your\_bacon.html

     Use System Restore  http://www.howtogeek.com/56891/use-windows-7s-previous-versions-to-go-back-in-time-and-save-your-files/

     Recovering Deleted Files on Windows 7 - http://askbobrankin.com/recovering\_deleted\_files\_on\_windows\_7.html?tbart

Although Word does have an "Autorecover" feature, that only works when Word is not shutdown normally, ie it abends. It would not have helped in your situtation. Here are a few links that discuss the featue:

How Word creates and recovers the AutoRecover files - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/107686

Automatically save and recover Office 2010 files - http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/access-help/automatically-save-and-recover-office-files-HP010354296.aspx?queryid=e794c47c4f0b4709b1e103e2b5d1c5b8&respos=206

Recover earlier (autorecover and Win7) versions of a file in Office 2010 - https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/recover-earlier-versions-of-a-file-in-office-2010-HA010356735.aspx?queryid=106d513162e24557bd44a0316ed25223&respos=0#BM1

My Office program did not open a recovered file - https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/my-office-program-did-not-open-a-recovered-file-HA010157885.aspx#BM14

To prevent future repeats of this problem, take a look at the following tips. I've merged a couple of them to create a "True Autosave" feature that creates new copies of file with date/timestamp in file name at predefined intervals. Sure it requires additional effort to delete unneeded copies but it provides lots of protection against losing changes and minimizing data loss when you encounter file corruption.

1   True Autosave Macros for Office

Unfortunately, although Office apps have been around since the the mid 1980’s, MS has not figured out that we need a good “Autosave” backup feature. In the past there was a “versions” feature in some office apps, but it only kept incremental copies of files, not ful files. Windows 7 has a file “versions” feature, but it is tied into “System Recovery Points”. Not very useful.  The following links tell how to setup macros that run automatically and use SAVEAS to save full copies of the file with the date/time included in the file name. You have to manually delete the “extra” backup files, but you control the process rather than Windows or Office. It is a bit more work, but I find it worth it for very important files that are changing frequently.

Helping You Recover Your Work in Office 2010

**http://blogs.technet.com/b/office2010/archive/2009/09/22/helping-you-recover-your-work-in-office-2010.aspx******

Have you ever closed Word after making a bunch of changes, and then accidently clicked ‘No' when asked if you want to save your changes?  Then you suddenly realized what you have done, only to find that there was no way to recover your work?  You are not alone.  In fact, so many people were in similar situations that we improved Office 2010 so you can get that document back!  We call this feature Versions and I would like to spend a little time introducing it to you.

How do we protect you from accidently not saving a document?

In prior versions of Office we periodically save your document in the background when you are editing a document.  We keep this file around so we can use it to recover your work if the application crashes.

For Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Office 2010 improves on this idea.  In the Backstage view we expose the periodic autosaved files from your current editing session and allow you to compare or restore them as the newest document. We purge them when you save and close your editing session.

Additionally, if you close an editing session without saving, we now keep your last autosaved file and let you access it from the Backstage view, under Recent Documents, or from Document Information when you open your document again. So now you can recover that unsaved work with a few simple clicks.

To ensure that we don't clutter your computer with these autosaved files, we only keep these files for 4 days, or until the next time you edit your document.

Now you can enjoy Office 2010 Excel, PowerPoint and Word with the knowledge that the software is working to protect you from losing your work. 

Recovering More of Your Work with a Shorter AutoRecover Interval http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=731710

Automatically Saving Your Work Frequently http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=731710&seqNum=2

Save Numbered Backup Versions of Document http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/SaveIncrementedFilename.htm

Save Dated & numbered Backup versions of a document.http://www.gmayor.com/save\_numbered\_versions.htm

A Real AutoSave

**http://word.tips.net/Pages/T000157\_A\_Real\_AutoSave.html******

Making Backups as You Work 1

**http://www.msofficetuneup.com/2008/06/01/making-backups-as-you-work-in-word-2007/******

Making Backups as You Work 2

**http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=731710&seqNum=5******

Saving in Document Format from a Macro http://word.tips.net/Pages/T000427\_Saving\_in\_Document\_Format\_from\_a\_Macro.html

Save the current document in two locations add-in for Word 2007 & 2010 - http://www.gmayor.com/SaveInTwoPlacesAddIn.htm

FastSaving Revisited

In the last issue of WordTips there were a number of readers that got the idea that I was suggesting that people should use the FastSave feature. In fact, I got quite a bit of feedback on that tip, some of it quite pointed. (According to one reader, I was even “irresponsible.” Another stated that I was doing a disservice to readers.)

I am sorry if I gave the impression that I thought FastSave is a great idea. That is far from the truth; I do not. There are several other “features” of Word that I think are ill conceived or totally unnecessary, as well. It doesn’t change the fact that they are features and people can use them, if they desire. WordTips are not designed to promote one method of doing something over another, but to provide alternative ideas that people can incorporate into their Word use, if they so desire.

With that being said, let me point out specifically why you should not use the FastSave feature.

·Other word processors may not be able to open Word documents saved with the FastSave feature enabled. For instance, WordPerfect says it can open Word documents, yet some versions of WordPerfect cannot open FastSaved Word documents.

·Third-party software designed to work with Word documents (such as some grammar checkers, document management programs, and desktop publishing software) will not work correctly with FastSaved Word documents.

·Find File (either in Word or in Windows) may not work correctly with FastSaved Word documents.

·FastSave results in more complex files being saved on disk. Any time you increase complexity, you run the risk of corrupting the files easier.

·FastSaved files take up more disk space.

·There have been reports of macro viruses “living on” in FastSaved documents, even though you thought you had them removed.

The list could go on and on, but you get the idea. In short, unless you have a specific need to use FastSave (such as if you are only creating simple documents using Word 6 on a slow 286 machine), it is probably a good idea to turn it off. The FastSave feature is turned on by default in all versions of Word, even in the original Word 97. Only if you are using Word 97 SR-1 is it turned off by default.

As a side note, according to the Microsoft Knowledge Base there are several circumstances under which a FastSave is not done by Word, even if you have enabled the feature. These circumstances include the following:

·When you save a document for the first time. (This makes sense, right?) This includes when you choose Save As to save under a new name or in a new location.

·When your document is saved on a network server or remote volume. (Word only performs a FastSave to a local volume.)

·When Word reaches the limit of how much information it can save using the FastSave option. In this case Word does a normal save, and then again starts using FastSave for future saves.

Nuff said? (I hate it when I’m irresponsible.)

Don’t Work Off Floppies

**http://word.tips.net/Pages/T000132\_Dont\_Work\_Off\_Floppies.html******

**Summary:**Still saving your documents to floppy disk? Here's why this isn't such a good idea. (This tip works with Microsoft Word 6, Word 95, Word 97, Word 2000, Word 2002, and Word 2003.)

People who are new to computers have a tendency to store their data files, including Word documents, on floppy disks. They think this is safer, in case the hard disk has a problem. This may have been true in the early days of hard disks, but there are a number of reasons not to use floppy disks to store your documents:

·It is much slower loading and saving documents.

·Floppy disks are more prone to disk errors than hard disks.

·It is too easy to misplace a floppy disk.

·If the size of your document becomes larger than the available space on your floppy, you may lose the entire file.

·If the floppy runs out of space for file and temp it could cause doc corruption and word crash

The biggest reason to not work on floppies has to do with how Word handles its temporary “scratchpad” files. Microsoft designed Word to stash critical parts of the document in “temp files” on disk instead of trusting them to RAM. There are a couple of temp files opened in the %temp% folder when Word starts, and there are two or more opened where the document file is located.

If your document file is on a floppy disk, that’s where the temp files will be created. There is no way to keep Word from doing this, and it’s always been this way, clear back to the days of Word 2.0. A problem arises if you remove the diskette too soon. Some of the temp files are closed when you close the document, but if you have copied anything to the Clipboard, a temp file or two will remain open until Word itself is shut down. At some point, it is guaranteed that Word will try to clean up after itself, and if you’ve prematurely removed the diskette, it can’t access the temp file and may pester you for it until you either give it the file it wants or until you forcibly end Word.

The other and more important reason for not working directly from floppy disks is their small capacity. Word temporarily needs a little over twice the amount of space that the saved file will occupy to properly save the file. If you fill up the diskette in the process of saving the file, Word may crash and you may corrupt your file.

(Thanks to Hafizullah Chishti for contributing to this tip.)

Floppies Can’t Handle Word Documents?

Applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002

TaIf you are using Word on a Windows XP system, you may have noticed a bothersome error message that appears when you try to send a Word document to a floppy drive. If you display the Open or Save As dialog box in Word, right click on a file, and then choose Send To, you have the choice of where to send your document. If you choose to send it to the A: drive (where you have a floppy disk), you will see an error message.

Error message when trying to send a document to the A: drive.

This message is a bit misleading, as it is not singling out just your Word document. In fact, the same message would occur regardless of the type of file you try to send to the floppy. In addition, the problem isn’t limited just to floppies. If you tried to send the file to a different drive (such as a Zip drive) or even to the My Documents folder, you would see the same message.

Even though you may have noticed this problem when you were using Word, it is not a problem with Word or with Word documents. This is a problem with Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Home Edition. Microsoft knows of the problem, as immortalized in Knowledge Base article 328856:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B328856

There is no known cure for the problem, other than changing your operating system. If you see the error message and click on OK, the file is still copied to the target. If the message continues to bother you, you can try to create your own Send To shortcut and the problem should be bypassed. Follow these steps:

1.       Get out of Word completely.

2.       Make sure there is a floppy disk in the A: drive.

3.       Choose My Computer from the Start menu. Windows shows the resources on your computer.

4.       Double-click the C: drive icon. Windows shows what is available on the C: drive.

5.       Double-click the Documents and Settings folder. Windows opens the folder.

6.       Double-click the folder that has your user name on it. Windows opens the folder.

7.       If there is no SendTo folder visible in the window, choose Folder Options from the Tools menu. In the dialog box, display the View tab, then select the Show Hidden Files or Folders radio button. When you close the dialog box, the SendTo folder should be visible.

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8.       Double-click the SendTo folder. Windows opens the folder.

9.       Choose New from the File menu, then choose Shortcut. Windows starts the Create Shortcut wizard, the first screen of which asks you to type a path.

The Create Shortcut wizard.

10.     Type A: and click Next. Windows accesses the A: drive for a short time and then asks you to name your shortcut.

11.     Replace the default name with a name such as Floppy and click on Finish. The shortcut appears in the window.

12.     Close the folder window.

Now, when you right-click a file, you should choose the new Floppy shortcut, not the original shortcut. You should not see the error message.

(Thanks to Gary Pearson, Suzanne S. Barnhill, and Bonnie Batts for contributing to this tip.)