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Q: Recovering unsaved word doc on OSX

Hi, Can anyone advise how I recover an unsaved word document on OSX 10.8.4 using office 2011? Thanks

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7), Netgear DGND3700 modem router

Posted on Jul 1, 2013 6:48 AM

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  • by ali.sinair,Helpful

    ali.sinair ali.sinair Dec 12, 2014 3:05 AM in response to scott163
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    Dec 12, 2014 3:05 AM in response to scott163

    I had the same problem. This link is a life savior:

     

    http://jeromyanglim.tumblr.com/post/52856277910/how-to-find-word-auto-recovery-f iles-in-osx

     

    Do not worry, if your auto save is on then you can find the last version in your library just follow the steps.

     

    /Users/"your user name"/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Office 2011 AutoRecovery

     

    Cheers,

  • by macYguy,

    macYguy macYguy Dec 12, 2014 8:34 AM in response to jcmckinn
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    Dec 12, 2014 8:34 AM in response to jcmckinn

    jcmckinn ... thank you sooo much!!!

  • by trisplay,

    trisplay trisplay Dec 16, 2014 12:45 PM in response to jcmckinn
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    Dec 16, 2014 12:45 PM in response to jcmckinn

    Great advice, worked for me!

     

    In the temp folder, my word document was in a folder called TemporaryItems.  I sorted by date modified so I could see the most recent at the top. Make sure you get the version you want. For me, there were several different versions of my document.

  • by DavidPinetree,

    DavidPinetree DavidPinetree Dec 17, 2014 1:34 PM in response to jcmckinn
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    Dec 17, 2014 1:34 PM in response to jcmckinn

    Thanks jcmckinn, I had two files open, one I wanted to keep and one I wanted to get rid of ... I wasn't paying attention, and sent the one I wanted to keep to no-mans land.

  • by Wokpan,

    Wokpan Wokpan Dec 20, 2014 11:56 AM in response to jcmckinn
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    Dec 20, 2014 11:56 AM in response to jcmckinn

    This worked! Saved a day work. Many Thanks!

  • by OzKenny83,

    OzKenny83 OzKenny83 Jan 5, 2015 7:21 AM in response to jcmckinn
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    Jan 5, 2015 7:21 AM in response to jcmckinn

    Unfortunately this didn't work for me :-( 6 hours work down the virtual gurgler...moral of the story: ALWAYS PAY ATTENTION WHEN CLOSING WORD!!! Either that or save, save and save again every time you write a paragraph...or set Word's AutoRecover options to save every minute and hope that it actually does so!

     

    And the mother of all lessons learnt today: if you forget to do any of that, and you do misguidedly-click that "Don't Save" button, for the love of God, don't do what I did and go straight back into the freakin' document! I'm guessing that deleted the temp files that I may have otherwise found via this method, since it worked for so many of you. I'd be interested to know if anyone tried this AFTER opening the original version of a previously-saved document, or whether you all did it immediately after the erroneous close, or never had the document saved in the first place. I don't usually write an entire paper in one sitting so I'm guessing you guys don't either...yet it seems as though that's what you're all talking about.

  • by smacd44,

    smacd44 smacd44 Jan 13, 2015 7:04 PM in response to jcmckinn
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    Jan 13, 2015 7:04 PM in response to jcmckinn

    jcmckinn, I thank you, and my girlfriend REALLY thanks you!

  • by jicms,

    jicms jicms Jan 28, 2015 5:40 PM in response to jcmckinn
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    Jan 28, 2015 5:40 PM in response to jcmckinn

    You're a genius, this worked for my lost Word doc.  Thank you so much.  Is there anything similar for PCs does anyone know?!!!!!

  • by jl12380,

    jl12380 jl12380 Mar 19, 2015 4:18 PM in response to jcmckinn
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    Mar 19, 2015 4:18 PM in response to jcmckinn

    this was the right solution. thanks! found my "deleted" file.

  • by Atty4Jesus,

    Atty4Jesus Atty4Jesus Mar 19, 2015 5:42 PM in response to jcmckinn
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    Mar 19, 2015 5:42 PM in response to jcmckinn

    THANK YOU SO MUCH.  This was very helpful and I was able to retrieve my document that I spent 2.5 hours drafting.  The strange this is that I was manually saving the documents every 2-3 minutes and the Autosave was on but it did not save any changes.  It reverted back to my prior draft before changes. Weird!!!

  • by Stellaleyer,

    Stellaleyer Stellaleyer Mar 30, 2015 11:48 PM in response to scott163
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    Mar 30, 2015 11:48 PM in response to scott163

    General File Recovery

     

    If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted doc files that have not been overwritten by using recovery software such as Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro.  Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive.  Two free alternatives are Disk Drill and TestDisk.  Look for them and demos at MacUpdateor CNET Downloads.

     

    The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.

     

    Also visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Data Recovery.

  • by jenn.smith11,

    jenn.smith11 jenn.smith11 Mar 31, 2015 8:26 PM in response to jcmckinn
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    Mar 31, 2015 8:26 PM in response to jcmckinn

    You totally just saved my life. Thank you for spending the time.

  • by roboakleysings,

    roboakleysings roboakleysings Apr 22, 2015 11:56 PM in response to jcmckinn
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    Apr 22, 2015 11:56 PM in response to jcmckinn

    Boy oh boy you just saved my life jcmckinn - Thanks dude!!!!

  • by NataliePost16,

    NataliePost16 NataliePost16 May 4, 2015 11:02 PM in response to scott163
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    May 4, 2015 11:02 PM in response to scott163

    Thank you jcmckinn! You have seriously helped me. I'll just add here that if you don't find what you're looking for in the temp files because the temp file is too old, you can try looking in your trash at the folders called "Recovered files". I just recovered a temp document from a paper that I created and never saved over a month ago that away.

  • by kahjot,

    kahjot kahjot May 5, 2015 6:29 AM in response to Stellaleyer
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    May 5, 2015 6:29 AM in response to Stellaleyer

    Stellaleyer wrote:

     

    General File Recovery

     

    If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted doc files that have not been overwritten by using recovery software such as Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro.  Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive.  Two free alternatives are Disk Drill and TestDisk.  Look for them and demos at MacUpdateor CNET Downloads.

     

    The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.

     

    Also visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Data Recovery.

    FWIW, Data Rescue is now up to version 4 and can be ordered with an optional flash drive. The Link in "Data Rescue II" above is actually to something called "Wondershare Data Recovery For Mac".

     

    CNET may not be the best place from which to download "free" software.

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