If the file you were editing was an email attachment, all you'd have saved was a cached copy of that attachment. You need to either save the attachment to disk before editing it or save it to an appropriate folder via SaveAs afterwards; otherwise Windows will delete the file when you close your email application.

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Paul Edstein
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Yep, I think I opened it from an email but, I swear, I did a Save As after I got done. I don't think I have ever closed a file before saving, it's just not something I'd do, although, I'm aging, so, who knows.



Actually, now that I think about it, I *did* do a Save As, because the recovered file had the very file name, I thought it would, "filename-editedbyme." Weird! Just happy I found it!