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Recovery Instructions

  • Open the Terminal (Finder -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal)
  • Type the command: find / -name "*.doc" -or -name "*.docx" 2>/dev/null and press enter. This may take a while

You should now have a list of all doc or docx files on the system, even temporary or autosave ones. If you see it then type open <path to file> in the terminal and press enter. This should open that file in Word.

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