Urgent help needed with lost word document!!

Peanut6

I opened a word doc from an email attachment (gmail). Chose open, not save initially. Did a lot of work on it (thesis), then pressed save. Where does this save to as I am unable to find it! Please help, this is urgent!
REALLY NEED HELP ON THIS!

Thanks

MarkR

Have you tried in google docs? I think that may be the default save location when you open it in google.

Peanut6

Sorry not the best with technology!

So I log back into gmail? Go into google docs is it ? Then what

Thanks again

whydoibother?

If you don't find it in google docs, you could do a search on your whole computer. On mine you do this by:

Start > Search > For Files and Folders > All files and folders

It takes a little while, but has found me many lost things.

Peanut6

I've searched the name of the file on my laptop and nothing comes up

And its not in Google Docs either? The only documents in Google Docs is the work I had done on Google Docs itself and not Microsoft Word 2007

Overheal

check C:/Windows/Temp/

I assume you already went into Word and tried to view your recent files

Peanut6

Yup its not in my recent files on Microsoft Word

sproj

From the sound you clicked on the file in your email and chose "Open" instead of save.

If you had tried to save changes then Word would have prompted you to name the file and choose a location.

There will be a temporary version of the file somewhere on your computer. If you have autosave setup on Word, and by default it is set to save every ten minutes, then all of the changes you made up to the last autosave will be in that temporary version.

To find it you can try to open the file through the email again. In word you should now see the name of the file is ...[filename](1).doc

Look at the properties of the file through Word to see its location. Copy that location. Click 'Start'/Run and enter the location, removing the (1)
This should open the temporary version of the thesis with most of the changes saved,

coxyboy

could you open word doc again but this time instead of opening it like you did save it this time and see where it saves it to

Cicero

Really stupid question (maybe) but have you tried opening the same document through e-mail ...again. I've amended documents in outlook in the past by opening them (they were a mail attachment) making amendments then saving and closing...when I went back to open the document again, the changes were there...probably a long shot...maybe gmail behaves differently...best of luck getting it back...

Peanut6

sproj wrote: »

From the sound you clicked on the file in your email and chose "Open" instead of save.

If you had tried to save changes then Word would have prompted you to name the file and choose a location.

There will be a temporary version of the file somewhere on your computer. If you have autosave setup on Word, and by default it is set to save every ten minutes, then all of the changes you made up to the last autosave will be in that temporary version.

To find it you can try to open the file through the email again. In word you should now see the name of the file is ...[filename](1).doc

Look at the properties of the file through Word to see its location. Copy that location. Click 'Start'/Run and enter the location, removing the (1)
This should open the temporary version of the thesis with most of the changes saved,

Ok, I have opened the attachment the same way as you advised, it's called [filename](1).docx (does the 'x' mean anything?)
How do I look at the properties through word to see its location?
Thanks!

sproj

The .docx means you are using Word 2007, that's all.

To see the file properties go to the status button, in the top left, then to 'Prepare' and click on 'Poperties'

In there you can see the location of the file.

Peanut6

Peanut6 wrote: »

Ok, I have opened the attachment the same way as you advised, it's called [filename](1).docx (does the 'x' mean anything?)
How do I look at the properties through word to see its location?
Thanks!

You are an absolute genius Sproj - it worked! Thanks a million for your help.

And thanks to everyone else too!

sproj

Good stuff, you're welcome.

Just to be sure though, if you've opened the file in the way described what you have open is an autosaved version in the temporary location.

You need to 'Save As' that version to a location of your choice in order to be able to easily find it again.

Also for future reference the search function is generally the best way to find a lost file, but if that file is in a temporary folder then that may not work because the temporary folders are sometimes not indexed for search because they tend to get very big.

Best regards.