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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 Adi Himpson,Helpful

    Adi Himpson Adi Himpson Oct 22, 2015 4:23 AM in response to scott163
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    Oct 22, 2015 4:23 AM in response to scott163

    Just in case anyone finds their way here by Google, as I did looking for how to find the Office 2016 autosave files...

     

    You can locate them by going clicking the Go menu in the Finder, choosing Go To Folder and pasting:

     

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

     

    in the box.

     

    You may need to rename any files you find there as .doc instead of .docx  if they won't open properly.

     

    Hope this helps someone,

     

    Adi 

  • by highwaymelodies,

    highwaymelodies highwaymelodies Oct 26, 2015 8:03 PM in response to Adi Himpson
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    Oct 26, 2015 8:03 PM in response to Adi Himpson

    THANK YOU FOR THESE UPDATED INSTRUCTIONS, ADI. Yes, I am yelling because I am so grateful.

  • by TravisD67,

    TravisD67 TravisD67 Nov 4, 2015 9:34 PM in response to jcmckinn
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    Nov 4, 2015 9:34 PM in response to jcmckinn

    You sir are a hero! You saved me countless hours of rewriting my report! thank you

  • by dana.s1,

    dana.s1 dana.s1 Nov 5, 2015 11:32 AM in response to scott163
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    Nov 5, 2015 11:32 AM in response to scott163

    What if it only recovered an early version of the document and there's nothing in the TMP file? I just lost an entire essay.

  • by MBossLopez,

    MBossLopez MBossLopez Nov 5, 2015 7:33 PM in response to Adi Himpson
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    Nov 5, 2015 7:33 PM in response to Adi Himpson

    Thank you Adi! You saved me a lot of tears. I couldn't have found my work any other way.

  • by buzzbinder,

    buzzbinder buzzbinder Nov 7, 2015 9:11 AM in response to jcmckinn
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    Nov 7, 2015 9:11 AM in response to jcmckinn

    hi, this is really useful but it only shows the data from one day. Is it possible for me to retrieve work from a week ago? Thanks

  • by rociocardenas,

    rociocardenas rociocardenas Nov 20, 2015 11:10 AM in response to jcmckinn
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    Nov 20, 2015 11:10 AM in response to jcmckinn

    This helped me A LOT!!!! Thank you very much for the step by step information!!

  • by Yoderem,

    Yoderem Yoderem Nov 23, 2015 11:36 AM in response to scott163
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    Nov 23, 2015 11:36 AM in response to scott163

    YOU ARE A GOD THANK YOU.

  • by darsel,

    darsel darsel Nov 29, 2015 12:29 AM in response to jcmckinn
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    Nov 29, 2015 12:29 AM in response to jcmckinn

    This is super helpful. I think I have found the file but when I open it in texteditor it comes up as below. Any ideas of why and how to fix?

     

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  • by Ronny888,

    Ronny888 Ronny888 Nov 30, 2015 5:52 AM in response to scott163
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    Nov 30, 2015 5:52 AM in response to scott163

    Hello, i've the same problem and i could solved it following these stheps:

    - Open the file with OpenOffice

    - Save the file in a new format

    - Download this tool and run it with the corrupt file

    - Save the recovered file in a new word document

    It works for me, so hopefully help.

  • by conorrf,

    conorrf conorrf Dec 2, 2015 2:46 AM in response to jcmckinn
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    Dec 2, 2015 2:46 AM in response to jcmckinn

    jcmckinn's post helped me! I found my document. I sorted by date, and right at the time I was last working on the file there was a matching document with all my work. Thanks!

  • by bgstock,

    bgstock bgstock Dec 6, 2015 11:49 AM in response to ali.sinair
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    Dec 6, 2015 11:49 AM in response to ali.sinair

    Thank you. I now have to bookmark your info to find all my unsaved documents after OS X crashes. Thanks again

     

    B

  • by hope on caulkins,

    hope on caulkins hope on caulkins Dec 10, 2015 10:57 AM in response to ali.sinair
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    Dec 10, 2015 10:57 AM in response to ali.sinair

    Hello,

    I have Microsoft word for 2016, any advice? I know the exact time that i lost the version of the doc i wanted and accidently erased everything. I just want to get back to a version 1-2 saves away.  I was not working on any kind of online place. I'm completely offline on word so none of those options work. I'm desperate. Weeks of work.

  • by trisplay,

    trisplay trisplay Dec 10, 2015 12:13 PM in response to hope on caulkins
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    Dec 10, 2015 12:13 PM in response to hope on caulkins

    Hope,

     

    As user Adi Himpson said above, you may need to do this:

    Just in case anyone finds their way here by Google, as I did looking for how to find the Office 2016 autosave files...

     

    You can locate them by going clicking the Go menu in the Finder, choosing Go To Folder and pasting:

     

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

     

    in the box.

     

    You may need to rename any files you find there as .doc instead of .docx  if they won't open properly.

  • by teban666,

    teban666 teban666 Dec 15, 2015 10:16 PM in response to jcmckinn
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    Dec 15, 2015 10:16 PM in response to jcmckinn

    This definitely helped me, but the Text Edit only provided me with 1/4 of my paper and the rest was symbols and text that made the file look like hieroglyphics. Is there a way I can change that?

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