Q: Recovering unsaved word doc on OSX

If the document was not saved you can not "recover" it. It was not saved anywhere so it is no where to be recovered from.

Two links worth a shot:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macword/how-do-i-retr ieve-an-unsaved-word-file-on-a-mac/936ebc5e-359c-41b7-881b-d128ffe0c6cc

http://www.slideshare.net/Selena2012/word-document-recovery-mac-recover-unsaved- deleted-and-damaged-word-documentdoc-docx-mountain-lion

Jim

I had lost substantial revisions to a paper I am writing, I hadn't saved them when word quit on me.
No autorecovery files to be found
No active time share back up.

I used ufly soft data recovery and found it!

A little pricey but worth it!!!!

Here's the link:   http://www.uflysoft.com/

Price you pay for not saving Office files on a regular basis. AFAIK, you can set an autosave interval:

Thanks for posting those links, Jim. The slideshare one helped me recover an autosave just now!

Many thanks, msw103!  I took your advice and paid the big bucks (worth it to me) for "uFlysoft," and it worked.  I am most  relieved, because I had DAYS of work into a highly technical report that must get published in a few weeks, and I thought it lost forever. 

I lost it by reopening my MacBook Air late last night and closing a few Word docs just to get them out of the way.  I was presented with a message from Word asking if I want to "revert to the save document," and I selected "OK," which was a BIG mistake.  All I had left was the name of the doc, but not one scrap of my new work.  I tell this story as a cautionary tale.  Good luck to you and all readers here.

Here is the link again for anyone as desperate as I was:

http://www.uflysoft.com/data-recovery-mac/

Just thought I should warn people this looks a lot like a scam. the App is £40 on app store but has five 1* reviews all saying it doesn't work.

I looked everywhere online and have FINALLY found the answer to retrieving your lost document EVEN if AutoRecovery did not save it. This is free with no external software needed, you just need to follow these quick couple steps.

So If you did as everyone else said and found the folder "Office 2008/09/11 AutoRecovery" and your file is still NOT there, that means it is being stored in your computers Temporary or "-Tmp-" folder.

The "-Tmp-" folder is very hard to find, even if you have made hidden folders visible, so what you need to do is go to "Applications"- "Utilities"- "Terminal"

Once you are in the terminal copy this phrase: "open $TMPDIR" and press ENTER. That will open your Temporary files folder where you will see another folder named "Temporaryitems"

Open up the "Temporaryitems" folder and you will find your lost file, that even AutoRecovery could not find. However when you do find your file, make sure you open up the document with "TextEdit" because a .tmp file will not work with Word.

An example name of your lost document will be "WordWorkfile D-57238.tmp"

I spent hours on the internet looking for a solution and this is the only way I have actually been able to find the lost or unsaved file. I hope this helps and I can save everyone some extra hours of time.

This post from jcmckinn helped me! Thank you so much!!

Thanks jcmckinn. This was so helpful and it worked!  I was able to recover a paper I was 3 hours into writing that auto recovery did not have.  Thank you for posting!

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You SERIOUSLY SAVED ME!!!!  I have been working on my project for days and somehow it vanished!  Your step by step explanation worked perfectly!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

Thanks jcmckinn!! Thought i'd lost all my owrk but your step by step guide recovered all my work