I can not find the containers folder on my MAC book

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I can not find the containers folder on my MAC book

Hello, I recently had a word document go missing from my laptop before I could save it. It was there yesterday late morning, but it was gone when I came back to finish it in the evening. I Had not saved it but wanted to try to recover it. I'm not sure how it was closed on my computer. I went into the library and tried to find it that way; it's not there. I tried running terminal and typing in chflags nohidden ~/Library, and then I hit the options key, and nothing happened. I have already rewritten the paper and set up word to autosave every 5 mins and to save in the background. I do want to know if you can access containers another way. I have a MacBook Pro 13.

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Posted on Feb 26, 2021 2:24 PM

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leroydouglas

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Feb 26, 2021 3:48 PM in response to mommaforlife

mommaforlife wrote:

I can not find the containers folder on my MAC book

ello, I recently had a word document go missing from my laptop before I could save it. It was there yesterday late morning, but it was gone when I came back to finish it in the evening. I Had not saved it but wanted to try to recover it. I'm not sure how it was closed on my computer. I went into the library and tried to find it that way; it's not there. I tried running terminal and typing in chflags nohidden ~/Library, and then I hit the options key, and nothing happened. I have already rewritten the paper and set up word to autosave every 5 mins and to save in the background. I do want to know if you can access containers another way. I have a MacBook Pro 13.

? I can not find the containers folder on my MAC book

Finder>Go>Go To Folder copy & paste:

~/Library/Containers

Seems a bit incomplete your exact issue here...

Local Snapshots are saved for 24 hours, through the Time Machine icon upper right menu bar.

About Time Machine local snapshots - Apple Support

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mommaforlife Author

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Feb 26, 2021 3:59 PM in response to leroydouglas

Oh! that did it! Thank you! That was so much easier than all the other things I watched.

Once I was in containers I needed to go Microsoft word, data, library, preferences and then auto recovery to see if my paper was there since it just disappeared. It isn't there so that means it was closed out by one of my kids or the dog stepped on my laptop when she got on the couch and deleted it. I did try several ways to find containers but when I opened library it wasn't there with the other C things. So I watched a YouTube on how to use terminal to find it but that didn't work either. Thank you so much for your help! At least I know what to do if there is ever a next time.

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I can not find the containers folder on my MAC book

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