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Where did my document go? I just saved it.
I was working this mornng on a student's paper. I downloaded it from email. I tried to save it but was told it is read-only. I saved it under a similar name. I worked on this item for at least an hour, made comments and changes. Now that I want to return it to the student, I can't find it. MS Word does not show it or its original version in the "Recent" list. I've nver seen that happen. I searched my computer with
name:start of file name and found nothing. What in the world did MS Word do that the file was saved but can't be found??? |
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Typically, when you open a file directly from an email, a copy is downloaded into a Temporary Internet folder and the file is opened from there. If you then did a SaveAs (without paying attention to the folder path) I would expect the file to be in that same folder.
The quickest way to find this folder is to repeat the process of opening the file from the email again and doing SaveAs and this time looking at the folder where Word is suggesting the file should be saved. Can you see the document in this folder?
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Andrew Lockton Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia |
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Thanks, Charles. I did accidentally discover the file's location by trying this same thing. What I want to know now is, Why didn't the search box in File Explorer (Windows 10) find it when I searched for with name:start of file name? That works in other directories. The temp Internet files are still files and they are on my computer. That doesn't make much sense to me. Also, why wasn't the file in the Quick Access list? It's as though Windows wants to pretend that temp Internet files don't exist. Strange behavior. When I was able to open the file, I was able to save it to some place I wanted. Thanks for the advice. Problem solved. Thanks.
Ken |
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They are system files and as temp files not regarded as important enough to index, is my guess. This has been the reality for decades. The page I referenced has been around for a long time.
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