Need Help Quick!

Lucifer

Hi, bit of a panic, my girlfriend was working on a word document she downloaded from her email for a couple of hours last night. its a college project and is due in at 12 today, when she went to open it this morning she couldnt find it, anyway what I think happened, is she selected open instead of download when she opened the attachment and then just kept clicking save all night. so i presume that it would of been saving in a temp folder or somewhere. Is there any way of finding it? I've had a quick look through temp and temporary internet files.

Thanks a milion

Kevin

Keano

Try doing a search for all files with a .tmp extension

Make sure to search all hidden folders as well

irlrobins

Open word and see if it's listed in the most recently opened files list under file menu

Lucifer

just tried that, no joy

gibo_ie

if she onlopened it initially from email then the file will be saved in a temporary space whichis not searchable inititally. Easiest way to find the file is to go to an attachment in email (not the one she was working on), open it then press save as, this will bring you to the temporary location, then find the file in here, right click and copy it and then paste it somewhere handy like the desktop. This will definately work, i see it all the time in work.
good luck

Lucifer

Am trying this but if i select save it brings me to desktop which is where that last thing that was downloaded was saved, if i select open it says saving to Temporary Folder but i cant click open folder. I've looked in C:\Windows\Temp and also C:\Users\Kim\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files
Its Vista by the way incase it matters

gibo_ie

it has to be "Save AS" not just save, this brings you to c:\documents and settings\username\local settings\temporary internet files\OLKxx <-- where the xx will be random numbers on different user profiles. I just tested this on another machine and it does work!!!

Lucifer

ok, i have found a file ~DFBD84.tmp which going by the date and time would of been around the time it was last worked on last night. I copied the file to desktop and changed it to .doc but word will only open it as a big mess. its justs random characters all the way down, it does ask about encoding? is it possible to view this file? It could be the wrong file though!

Lucifer

looking again i'm not so sure, its only 16KB and it was a bigish word document (maybe 20 pages along with maybe a graph or pic or 2)

before she started working on it yesterday the copy in the email was 339KB so should be bigger than this.

gibo_ie

It will be saved in this location as the same name as the original attachment was named but may have (1) or (2) after the name depending on how many times it was saved.

Lucifer

it wasnt saved, she had her original project and emailed it to a friend, who made a few changes to what she had done. then she got it emailed back as a different file name. when she opened the attachment she just clicked open I presume and worked away for a few hours. So the document she worked on was never originally saved on her laptop as it was emailed to her with a different file name. then she just clicked save instead of save as.

NotMe

Try this

C:\Users\Kim\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5

Copy and paste it into the address bar.. you can't browse to that folder. Make sure you have 'show hidden files' checked and 'hide protected operating system files' unchecked.

gibo_ie

Lucifer wrote: »

it wasnt saved, she had her original project and emailed it to a friend, who made a few changes to what she had done. then she got it emailed back as a different file name. when she opened the attachment she just clicked open I presume and worked away for a few hours. So the document she worked on was never originally saved on her laptop as it was emailed to her with a different file name. then she just clicked save instead of save as.

But if she clicked save after opening it from an attachment it will be here!! If not then you be stuck!

Feelgood

Lucifer, are you using a web browser or Outlook for opening mail and attachments?.

Have you checked the original email that attachment was downloaded from to see if the file is still attached to it?.

Lucifer

NotMe wrote: »

Try this

C:\Users\Kim\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5

Copy and paste it into the address bar.. you can't browse to that folder. Make sure you have 'show hidden files' checked and 'hide protected operating system files' unchecked.

ok i have done this, in these folders are some things like logos and that, that were added to the document but i cant see the document in any of these, would it be a document file or other? also nothing seems to be the right file size to be it

thanks again

kevin

EDIT i can post the contents of the other folders if you think it will help

Lucifer

it was downloaded from gmail using internet explorer. the attachment is still in the email, but the problem is she done a couple of hours more work on it after so the copy that would be in the email would be only the first half.