Recovering unsaved word doc on OSX

I can't begin to thank you! I did have to change it from a docx to doc and then I had to copy and paste it into a new document because it wouldn't let me save as, but I got it back!. Thank you

THANK YOU!!! I was working on a really important assignment and Word quit! 🙂

Thank you!!!!!! You're a life saver 🙂

Thank you, this really works, saved me so much trouble!

Jcmkinn- Honestly can't thank you enough... though i'd loss about 10000 words of prood read thesis.... thank you again you absolute legend.

Thanks! This was super helpful!

Thanks jcmckinn! Saved my life, still perfectly working in 2017 <3

OMG Thank you so much ADI!!!!! I was able to recover the file I was working on for days! OMG thank you!!!

You’re welcome vahneepie - glad to hear the tip is still helping people 😁

Thank you soooo much Adi! You seriously just saved my life. LEGEND. Thank you 🙂 Great advice 🙂

woot! yes that worked. I love you!!!

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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

Other options if you didn't click save for the auto recover version!

• Look in your trash for a "Recovered items" folder
• Go to the Finder, select Go > Go to folder, type/private/var/folders and look for files named "Word Work File" inside a "Temporary items" folder.* Option drag files or folders to the Desktop (or anywhere else) before dropping them on Word's icon. Don't delete anything!

To avoid losing data in the future, save your files as soon as you create them. To reduce the chance that this will happen again, follow Jim Gordon's tip to verify/repair your disk. Also use that same utility to repair permissions (there's abutton to do that).

* Pressing Command F (i.e., File > Find) and searching for "Word Work File" worked for user Lyn Yeowart.

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

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/