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Help recovering office document

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:06 pm
by Shawn Marion
So here is the situation:

My girlfriend has been my laptop to work on a project while also working on it at the computer lab. She has been emailing it to herself and not using a disk or a USB drive. When she opens it from email, when prompted between open file and save to disk, she opens the file and then usually uses save as to save it elsewhere.

So earlier today she never used save as and was saving it in the temp file. Then she emailed herself an older version. She then opened the older version from her email to double-check it and realized her mistake.

I cannot locate any version of her project anywhere on my computer. What I think happened (with my limited computer know-how) is that the new version was replaced by the old version in the Temp file.

So the question is: Is there anyway I can recover the newer version of her project? Any suggestions?

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:54 pm
by ElvisMonster
If you restore from a day previous to the day you deleted the stuff, it should come back, right? I'm not a computer guy but you seemed desperate. Any port in a storm, right?

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:25 am
by PrimeX
Shawn Marion has a wife. You're not fooling me, STEVE NASH!

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:24 pm
by Jimmy Medalions
ElvisMonster wrote:If you restore from a day previous to the day you deleted the stuff, it should come back, right? I'm not a computer guy but you seemed desperate. Any port in a storm, right?
You need to stay at more Holiday Inns and stuff.

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:31 pm
by ElvisMonster
I figure if I use that response enough times it'll eventually be right.

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 9:29 pm
by TenTallBen
Go to this directory and see if its in there...

C:\Documents and Settings\Your user name here\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLKD4