Recovering unsaved word doc on OSX

I tried and the word documnet turned out blank

Thank you.

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

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!!

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.

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

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

Thank you jcmckinn

You just saved me hours of work!

May God bless you!

Thanks

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

God bless you!

Thanks so much for this! It saved an hour's worth of note taking from a meeting tonight!!

Amazing tip! Just recovered a file I spent hours on. Too bad Microsoft doesn't indicate this anywhere...

Thank you, after an hour of stress during finals... my essay is back.... wholy **** i wish i could buy you a coffee.

they blocked that 4 letter word for a fire and brimstone place... really? 4377 on the calculator.

How didn't you then turn the document in text edit back to word format? There are so many hyperlinks!