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CorsaLad
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18th Mar 04 at 00:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

ive been working on a piece of work and ive just opened a copy of it adn the work ive been doing for the last 3 hours hasnt saved! i have saved on more than one occassion!

please help

cheers

james

ps its in word
Stuckey
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18th Mar 04 at 00:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

u sure u opened the saved file?
CorsaLad16v
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18th Mar 04 at 00:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

doesn't word write a .tmp or summat like that to ur harddrive for recovery purposes? u may have opened that by mistake
CorsaLad
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18th Mar 04 at 00:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

ive been working on it since 12am...so tired...can someone explain wot i need to do please
Stuckey
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18th Mar 04 at 00:45   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by CorsaLad16v
doesn't word write a .tmp or summat like that to ur harddrive for recovery purposes? u may have opened that by mistake


isn't it a hidden file tho?

who would be stupid enough to open it
Stuckey
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18th Mar 04 at 00:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by CorsaLad
ive been working on it since 12am...so tired...can someone explain wot i need to do please


check u opened the write file
CorsaLad
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18th Mar 04 at 00:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

im on a uni network if this makes a difference
CorsaLad16v
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tiz hidden yea, but i got the "hidden files" showing on my computer for when i log in lol so thats y they're there, but he said he's opened a copy of it so figured it may be that
Kenni
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18th Mar 04 at 00:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

one of those last minute jobbies
Stuckey
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18th Mar 04 at 00:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

a copy is proably a copy of an older version of the file, i think he has saved the "more up to date" one elsewhere


try searching for the doc

or have they disabled search at your uni
CorsaLad
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18th Mar 04 at 00:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

yes it is disabled
Stuckey
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18th Mar 04 at 00:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

search everywhere where u can save .doc files and open them all, u may of saved it elsewhere

also click file in word and it should have the file in the last opened/saved .doc's is it there?
CorsaLad
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18th Mar 04 at 00:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

for some reason it wont show the files in the last opened bit

do you recon a restart would do anything?
CorsaLad16v
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18th Mar 04 at 00:53   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

click on open in word and search thru all the folders, may be under a different name or saved in a different place than u originally saved it
Stuckey
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18th Mar 04 at 00:54   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

search EVERYWHERE where u can save files for word .docs
CorsaLad
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18th Mar 04 at 01:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

no luck looks like im fucked
Stuckey
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18th Mar 04 at 01:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i know it alte u sure u were using word?
Stuckey
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18th Mar 04 at 01:03   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

bring up task manager use it to close word

then open it and see if it recvers any files/work
CorsaLad16v
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18th Mar 04 at 01:04   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

task manager may be disabled too tho if he's on uni network
CorsaLad
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18th Mar 04 at 01:05   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

definately using word.

there si a prob with these pcs i think because it says ur diretory is full when its not, but if u save it to the desktop and then drop it into the folder its ok :S
CorsaLad
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18th Mar 04 at 01:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

task manager does work
Stuckey
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18th Mar 04 at 01:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i have run outta ideas sorry

check recycle bin
CorsaLad
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18th Mar 04 at 01:09   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

nah mate, good of u to try

no luck with recycle bin either
CorsaLad
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18th Mar 04 at 01:09   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

is there any way u can recover autosave files?
Stuckey
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18th Mar 04 at 01:13   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i'm checking word help

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