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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 bec3116,

    bec3116 bec3116 Jun 7, 2016 9:57 PM in response to Adi Himpson
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    Jun 7, 2016 9:57 PM in response to Adi Himpson

    Thank you Adi !  I Couldn't open my autorecover file and I was having heart failure.  I want to CELEBRATE YOUR WISDOM - who knew taking the x of .docx would be the solution to my problems.  THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!  

  • by Kingemac,

    Kingemac Kingemac Jun 21, 2016 11:40 AM in response to jcmckinn
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    Jun 21, 2016 11:40 AM in response to jcmckinn

    Wow, this just saved my day! Thanks a lot!!! the terminal thing with the "open $TMPDIR" worked, when nothing else did. however, after opening with "TextEdit" I further had to export from there to a PDF. because simply copy & pasting from TextEdit to Word created some problems (spaces/numbers between every character). With the PDF save that problem was gone.

  • by LorettaTK,

    LorettaTK LorettaTK Jun 23, 2016 8:49 PM in response to jcmckinn
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    Jun 23, 2016 8:49 PM in response to jcmckinn

    Thanks! You helped me recover a document I spent 6 hours on ... had saved ... but seemed permanently lost! 

  • by seema4,

    seema4 seema4 Jul 11, 2016 2:03 PM in response to scott163
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    Jul 11, 2016 2:03 PM in response to scott163

    Hi i tried all the above and found the temp folder but when i open the temp file in textedit it comes up with either nothing or gibberish. please help i need to recover my assignment!!

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Jul 12, 2016 7:42 AM in response to seema4
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    Jul 12, 2016 7:42 AM in response to seema4

    You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. You can link to this one.

  • by zerofromanchorage,

    zerofromanchorage zerofromanchorage Jul 25, 2016 11:56 PM in response to scott163
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    Jul 25, 2016 11:56 PM in response to scott163
    1. Take a deep breath. Everything’s going to be ok.
    2. Open Finder.
    3. Mouse up to the main menu bar and select Go.
    4. Hold down Option on your keyboard and select Library from the drop-down menu when it appears.
    5. In the finder window, browse to Library > Containers > com.microsoft.Powerpoint > Data > Library > Preferences > AutoRecovery
    6. Select the file you’re looking to recover and rename with a .ppt extension.
    7. Move the file to the desktop, or another handy location.
    8. Reopen, and pick up where you left off.

    Maybe you can try uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac, it can recover LOST DATA on Mac only in three steps:

    Step 1. Launch the software to scan the device where your files deleted

    Step 2: Preview the scan result files and make mark if it is the one you find

    Step 3: Recover files

  • by LizTheBiz,

    LizTheBiz LizTheBiz Jul 28, 2016 8:44 AM in response to scott163
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    Jul 28, 2016 8:44 AM in response to scott163

    Guys, I found the solution!!!  For those of you whose file path isn't as cut an dry as the previous posts here, there's a way to find out what it is, and track your autorecovery, where ever the heck it lives.

     

    First, go to ->Spotlight Search->Terminal-> in the terminal command window type find * -iname 'autorec*'

    **DO NOT ALTER THIS COMMAND, COPY AND PASTE FROM HERE STARTING WITH find and ending with '**

    This should then spit out the file path for our autorecovery, for example:

    Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word/Data/Library/Preferences/AutoRecovery

     

    This is different for every computer, so yours maybe different than what I have listed up above. 

     

    Next, open Finder, click Go from the dropdown menus up top ->Go To Folder-> /users/"your user name"/from here copy and paste the file path that was given to you in Terminal.  Again, mine was Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word/Data/Library/Preferences/AutoRecovery.  My entry into Go To Folder looked like this: /Users/"my username"/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word/Data/Library/Preferences/AutoRe covery

     

    Voila!  This should open your autorecovery folder.  Hope this helps.

  • by SaraSaraSaraSaraSara,

    SaraSaraSaraSaraSara SaraSaraSaraSaraSara Jul 31, 2016 7:54 AM in response to jcmckinn
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    Jul 31, 2016 7:54 AM in response to jcmckinn

    Thank you one million times over! I found a recent draft and saved hours of work after problem-solving with this advice.

  • by RamBami,

    RamBami RamBami Aug 11, 2016 4:19 AM in response to jcmckinn
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    Aug 11, 2016 4:19 AM in response to jcmckinn

    Can't thank you enough jcmckinn! Managed to recover a slightly earlier version using your suggestion, and formatting was all messed up, but small issues compared to re-writing the whole article from scratch... will still be haunted by the wheel of death for a while though!

  • by bo_dae,

    bo_dae bo_dae Aug 13, 2016 2:38 PM in response to jcmckinn
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    Aug 13, 2016 2:38 PM in response to jcmckinn

    This worked! Saved me a lot of time and a huge headache!

  • by pier49pastor,

    pier49pastor pier49pastor Sep 3, 2016 10:15 PM in response to jcmckinn
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    Sep 3, 2016 10:15 PM in response to jcmckinn

    Thank you jcmckinn

     

    You just saved me hours of work!

     

    May God bless you!

     

    Thanks

  • by mjw181,

    mjw181 mjw181 Sep 7, 2016 11:14 AM in response to Adi Himpson
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    Sep 7, 2016 11:14 AM in response to Adi Himpson

    Thank you so much!!! I tried a million things and this actually worked like a charm!

  • by johndrimmer,

    johndrimmer johndrimmer Sep 7, 2016 11:44 AM in response to ali.sinair
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    Sep 7, 2016 11:44 AM in response to ali.sinair

    God bless you!

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