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Old 08-15-2011, 02:11 PM
wayne wayne is offline MS Word XP file save Windows 7 64bit MS Word XP file save Office XP
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Originally Posted by Kimberly View Post
Do not close Word.
Sorry to hear that you are frustrated. Microsoft apparently does think it is a worthwhile feature since they have included it in many many versions and continue to include it in the current version, 2010. It usually works quite well. I don't know why it isn't working for you.
Tools > Options > File Locations... see if you can find the save location.

Or you can try searching your hard drive for .asd
Thanks again Kimberly,

When I go to the location pointed to for recovery files there is nothing but an empty folder.

When I search for *.asd files I do indeed find several very old files and eureka! There is one fresh file. It is as if the software decided I was getting too close to catching up with it so it gave up and surrendered.

How does it store the recovery files? Are they stored on top of each other like WP does it's backup files? What triggers a recover save. Clearly it isn't time based since the file should have very nearly the current clock time if that were the case and the software was doing what is advertised so what does it do really?
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