Unable to locate Office 2011 Autorecovery folder in Application support folder

Hi all,

For me Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Office 2011 Autorecovery does not work.

But the other option Users/username/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Office 2011 AutoRecovery also does not work. I will go crazy. The file is in neither of the two locations. Where can it be?

Any tip is much appreciated.

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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.

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

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Hope this helps someone

I need help!!!! I need help with a word document to restore my document. I need worst case scenario to get this since i have been trying for the past 2 hours!! Can anyone please help me!!!??? Auto-recovery is not my latest paper 😟

Open Finder. In the left panel, under Favorites, click the house icon next to your computer's name. Then click Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Office 2011 Autorecovery. (Drag that folder to your Favorites list so you'll always be able to find it.) Open the missing file.

I can get to my buried folder (I turned hidden folders on on my Mac a while back), but there is no "Office 2011 Autorecovery" folder under "Office". The only folder in that path is "User Templates." I checked Word's options and Autorecovery was already checked, so it should have been saving copies for me. I have plenty of files on my machine that I've worked with on off and on. There definitely should be some autosaved files somewhere. The one I am currently missing, I'm heartsick about the loss of time and having to redo. I usually do a pretty good job of Ctrl+S on a regular basis, but in this case, I hadn't thought to do that and Word crashed on me more than an hour into editing this file. Argh!

Maybe it's time to find a new word processor. Word 2011 leaves much to be desired.

I have Yosemite, btw, in case the lack of autorecovery files is specific to my OS version.

I am a novice but I had a version of this problem and found the information at this link incredibly helpful in dealing with how office 2011 AutoRecovery is hidden in the current version of OSX. Hope this helps you.

http://macmanus.nl/2014/09/15/fixed-where-are-my-office-2011-autorecovery-files/

Nowadays, the AutoRecovery-folder is located in an entirely different location on your Mac. The correct path is this :

~/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Office 2011 AutoRecovery

But there is yet another tiny hurdle to get to it : in the current version of OSX, the user’s Library-folder is a hidden folder. So if you want to access it, the easiest way to do so is :

– in the Finder, click on “Go” in the top menu bar

– when the pulldown menu appears, press the ALT-key on your keyboard (a.k.a. OPTION-key) and an extra option named “Library” will appear in the pulldown menu

– while holding the ALT-key, click on “Library” and your personal (hidden) Library-folder will open in the Finder

– there you can navigate to Application Support–>Microsoft–>Office to find the “Office 2011 AutoRecovery”-folder you are looking for

The above suggestion works! The previous suggestions that direct you to go to the Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Office 2011 Autorecovery does not work. The autorecovery folder does not "exist" here. MLnash's suggestion works, and it will direct you to the autorecovery folder we are all searching for! Thank you very much, MLnash! 🙂 🙂 🙂

thank you so much, after hours of looking for a solution, you solved my problem!!! 🙂

Thank you thank you thank you!!! You just saved me a huge project that got spirited away by the technology gods.

Lifesaver! Thankyou so much the Alt button is the way to go! Older forums show the "Office 2011 AutoRecovery Folder" which does not work now 😟Thankyou!!

You, good Mac user, just saved my bacon. Thanks so much!!

Thank you so much for this advice. I thought I'd lost a whole morning of work until I followed your instructions. Phew!!

Cheers,

Jenni S.

This was a life saver! Thank you so much🙂

Many thanks to you and to the original problem solver.

The solution offered worked fine. But WHY OH WHY DOES APPLE DO THESE THINGS AND CREATE THESE PROBLEMS?

The problem occurred because my computer crashed and when it restarted the default save option in Excel was this auto recovery folder.

So the moral is to check that it hasn't decided to chenge the save folder for you, or you will be tearing your hair out.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! My computer crashed, and I couldn't find my files. I restarted/recreated from an old saved version, and then those files disappeared too. Finally I noticed that I was saving to the "auto recovery" file and so my files weren't even saving into documents like they always have. I looked through TONS of threads on how to find the files in the auto recovery mode, and this is the ONLY one that worked at all!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!