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Dec 21, 2015 11:53 PM in response to Adi Himpsonby ikxchan,Thank you my hero ---- I managed to find this doc but couldn't open it. Followed your advice to change its find name, and it works.
By the way, in case any Microsoft engineer is reading this, I would like to ask, in a nice and polite manner,
WHY THE **** DON'T YOU TELL ME WHERE TO RETRIEVE THE AUTORECOVERED FILE IF YOU LET ME CHOOSE HOW FREQUENTLY TO SAVE IT? WHY DO I NEED TO SEARCH ONLINE FOR HOURS TO FIND THE RIGHT ANSWER? SERIOUSLY, IT'S JUST A BUTTON, A HYPERLINK, TO THE FOLDER! AND WHY DO I NEED TO RENAME IT JUST TO GET IT OPENED? ****!
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Jan 9, 2016 6:23 AM in response to ali.sinairby madharper,Thank you, thank you!!!! Worked. PHEW!!!!!!
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Feb 4, 2016 10:47 AM in response to ali.sinairby niklaouosson,I love you so much! I had a essay on almost 2000 word, about 1500 i hadn't saved. Thanks to you, I won't fail<3
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Feb 18, 2016 7:53 AM in response to jcmckinnby EmilyJane1986,You've just saved me about 4 hours work that I thought I'd lost on my nursing dissertation and no money spent either!
Thank you
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Feb 23, 2016 1:37 AM in response to jcmckinnby Leo Htet,Thank you jcmckinn! You really helped me and saved my time! Thanks!
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Apr 17, 2016 3:42 AM in response to jcmckinnby livvylou03,Thanks very much. I had been working on a 2 hour report and thanks to you it came back. At first i had click on the wrong button but then I worked it out. Thank you so so so much.
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Apr 21, 2016 9:33 PM in response to jcmckinnby I.R.O.I,You saved my life!!! The night before a huge final exam I lost my word document that I was studying from. Thanks a lot!!
I lost my Apple I.D and I just spent about 30 minutes looking for my I.D and password just to comment and thank you.
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Apr 27, 2016 2:17 AM in response to scott163by raffdog!,After writing a 10 page final paper all day long i was nearing the end at about 2:30 am and all of a sudden my computer just shut down. I instantly feared the worst and I was correct, I hadn't saved my paper since 10:00 am this morning and about 8 pages of work was gone. After sobbing for a few minutes i picked myself up and tried every trick i could find online (including everything on this forum) to no avail. It was about 5:00 am at this point and i was ready to give up when I stumbled upon a miracle! Follow this simple procedure and you can recover you doc in about 30 seconds.
Look Auto Recovery folder
Office 2016 autosaved files located in the following address.
- Click the Go menu in Finder.
- Select Go to Folder and paste the following file location address.
~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word/Data/Library/Preferences/AutoRecovery/
Note : You may need to rename .doc instead of .docx, if they won’t open properly in MS Word app.
In Older Microsoft Office versions uses Auto recovery folder in different location:-
/Users/user-name/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Office 2011 AutoRecovery
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Apr 30, 2016 12:39 PM in response to ali.sinairby schmycy,Thank you much, that saved 2 days of my work!!
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May 8, 2016 4:57 PM in response to Adi Himpsonby josepbayer,for office 2016 Adi Himpson's post helped me. thank you Adi.
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May 31, 2016 7:40 PM in response to josepbayerby feligato,In my case, for Word 2016, version 15.22, was a combination of going with Terminal (open $TMPDIR) and looking in the 'com.microsoft.Word' directory. I sorted by Date Modified and got the data I was looking for
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Jun 3, 2016 5:08 AM in response to jcmckinnby Idoria,I tried and the word documnet turned out blank
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