Done a load of work on word,saved after 2 hours.Then did another 3 hours work which said it had saved it,but can't find it so looks like something went wrong..Any ideas please if and how i can recover it.



Thanks

Was this on a document that you opened from an email?

No Charles,my daughter was doing her homework on word and it said it had saved it,but it wasnt there when she went back to it.. She has had to do it all again.. Thanks for the reply anyway.

If the document was on a USB stick that was removed without going through the safe-removal process, that could account for the loss. Because of the risk of data loss and document corruption (which regularly results in an entire document being destroyed), it's generally considered unwise to work on documents on USB sticks. Instead, you should copy the document to a local folder (e.g. to the Desktop), open, edit & save the copy, then copy it back to the USB stick afterwards. As a bonus, that process also means you'll have a backup (unless/until you delete the unwanted copy).

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