Lost document

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I was working and my windows shut down and I lost my document .. How do I restore it ? Its no where to be found

 

[Bobvfr]

Back in the old days you would often find files that were caught in a shutdown in the temp folder C:/Windows/Temp, often the files would have the same file name, but instead of "Filename.doc" they would be called "Filename.TMP" or sometimes "Filename.~MP".

Do a search for the filename (If you had saved it at sometime), make sure you search the whole of C: drive and try a wildcard so if your file was called "Letter.Doc" do the search as "Letter.* ", the asterisk tells Windows to search for any file regardless of extension with the name "letter".

If you find it, make a copy of it and try opening the copy, that way if anything goes wrong you still have the original.

If you hadn't saved it at anytime, you may have a problem.

I admit I haven't had to do any of this for a good few years so only going from memory.

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[ven07]

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[ChrisRJ]

I have already written my recommendation on data recovery in a similar topic. You should look up reviews of these softwares, there are quite a lot, including free options. I personally like to work with Disk Drill http://www.cleverfiles.com/word-excel-recovery.html or Recuva. They are a bit different, but both free so you won't lose anything if you give it a try. Good luck!