Unable to locate Office 2011 Autorecovery folder in Application support folder

I have been on soooo many threads trying to recover my excel file, and this was the one!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

I also found that typing:

chflags nohidden ~/Library

into terminal also unhides the library for the username (I was having trouble doing it in finder)

Here's the link:

http://www.wikihow.com/Unhide-the-User-Library-Folder-on-a-Mac

YAY for recovered documents!! Thanks again!

this was way helpful, saved me another three hours of work. thank you again!!!!

Many thanks MLnash! Finder could not locate a file that was saved multiple times. This worked. 8 solid hours of work in Excel recovered.

MLnash really helped me--but I can't figure out how to tell MLnash and express my huge gratitude. Saved my syllabus.

Thank you so much. I did follow your process, but the only files I found were Word Docs. I am looking for PowerPoint. I cut the paragraph I needed and then somehow lost it. Now I can't remember what I had written after hours........I checked to see if I had autosave turned on and I do. Word docs (only three and I must have 10GB of Word Docs), but nothing else. Do you have any other ideas.

Thank you again.

Joining in on the love to MLnash!! Thanks for being in the right place at the right time with the right info! You saved me hours of rewriting a paper, and I love you.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you. I spent three hours last night (the wee ones, as it happens) on the Apple support pages trying to find the location of my auto recovery files--in or out of time machine--with no luck. I finally went to bed furious. I just tried once more and came across your message and EUREKA!!!--there's my missing file! I don't have to rewrite this miserable manuscript. Bless you!

OH MY GOODNESS THANK YOU

YOU HAVE JUST SAVED ME! If I knew who you were personally I would take you out to dinner or something to repay you!

Can I buy you dinner? You saved my life!!!!!!!!! 😢

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to locate the auto recovery file for an unsaved word document. I'm on OS X and tried the above mentioned solution : Click Finder > Go > Hold down the Option key and choose Library > Application Support > Microsoft > Office > Office 2011 AutoRecovery.

However, the Microsoft folder doesn't even exist in Application support?! I checked my word settings and it is set up to save documents for AutoRecovery every 10 mins. I've been searching for hours on how to recover the file but can't find anything related to my situation. Hope someone can help 😟

Thanks!

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I was led to this post from another very useful post and it saved me a full day of work. I had saved the excel file many times throughout the day but when I closed it it disappeared! The name I had given it didn't show up in Finder or Spotlight. You have saved me a full day of re-doing work!

Saved me THANK YOU!!!!!

Here's how I did it, only a slight variation of other processes I read here. I went to the Go menu, clicked that while holding down the option key to bring up the Library menu. From there the path was Library>Application Support> Microsoft>Office >Office 2011 Autorecovery

That wasn't the last step. I found a number of documents, including some titled Autorecovery save of Document2 and so on, some Word files ending with .docx, others blank white with no suffix at all. I could tell they were probably the right ones because of the date, but when I tried to open them I got this error message:

Word can't open the file because the file format does not match the file extension.

So I dragged each one out to the desktop. Those with docx I changed to doc. To those with no suffix I added .doc.

AND I FOUND MY FILE!!!!!

Hope it helps someone!

This reply just saved me! THANK YOU THANK YOU 100 TIMES