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jcmckinn | |
Oct 29, 2014 12:42 AM | |
Re: Recovering unsaved word doc on OSX | |
in response to scott163 | |
I looked everywhere online and have FINALLY found the answer to retrieving your lost document EVEN if | |
AutoRecovery did not save it. This is free with no external software needed, you just | |
need to follow these quick couple steps. | |
So If you did as everyone else said and found the folder "Office 2008/09/11 AutoRecovery" and your file | |
is still NOT there, that means it is being stored in your computers Temporary or "-Tmp-" folder. | |
The "-Tmp-" folder is very hard to find, even if you have made hidden folders visible, so what you | |
need to do is go to "Applications"- "Utilities"- "Terminal" | |
Once you are in the terminal copy this phrase: "open $TMPDIR" and press ENTER. That will open | |
your Temporary files folder where you will see another folder named "Temporaryitems" | |
Open up the "Temporaryitems" folder and you will find your lost file, that even AutoRecovery | |
could not find. However when you do find your file, make sure you open up the document with | |
"TextEdit" because a .tmp file will not work with Word. | |
An example name of your lost document will be "WordWorkfile D-57238.tmp" | |
I spent hours on the internet looking for a solution and this is the only way I have actually | |
been able to find the lost or unsaved file. I hope this helps and I can save everyone some extra hours of time. | |
This helped me 4 members found this helpful (4) | |
baharris1021 | |
Nov 4, 2014 8:05 AM | |
Re: Recovering unsaved word doc on OSX | |
in response to jcmckinn | |
This post from jcmckinn helped me! Thank you so much!! | |
bfostr | |
Nov 9, 2014 6:05 AM | |
Re: Recovering unsaved word doc on OSX | |
in response to jcmckinn | |
Thanks jcmckinn. This was so helpful and it worked! I was able to recover a paper I was 3 | |
hours into writing that auto recovery did not have. Thank you for posting! |
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