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Recovering an overwritten document
Hello,
I hope you can help. I have two copies of a long word document I have been working on. I decided to copy the document in to my external hard drive from my C drive document folder. So I did this but then realised I had been using the external drive copy so now it was overwritten. I clicked on undo (i think it was undo and not redo) but the document disappeared from the external hard drive. I then clicked on undo/redo and it reappeared but was still the older copy. I cannot find a way of finding the most recent version of the document. I did try right clicking on the document and restore previous versions but it's empty. I hate to think that five days work has gone. Please tell me it hasn't Regards Kit |
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I would love to tell you that.
However, you have probably discovered the absolutely most final way of deleting a document. If you want to stop using your computer and pay a couple of thousand dollars for a firm to try to find scraps on your hard drive, you can. They will not promise success, though. Look on it as an expensive lesson. Automatically backup Word documents by Graham Mayor, MVP |
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You may be able to find a leftover autorecover version of the document in the Word's temporary folder. Typically, that's:
C:\Users\%Username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word \ Alternatively, you may be able to find a leftover .tmp copy of the document in the Windows temporary folder. Typically, that's: C:\Users\%Username%\AppData\Local\Temp
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