AutoSave? Didn't....

[Sara]

Worked on a 24-page newsletter all afternoon. Two pages were photo
intensive. Began getting slower and slower to refresh but I was
hitting "Save" periodically. Finally got a "low virtual memory"
message and decided to reboot about 4 P.m.

Now when I pull up the newsletter, the last save it has is
11:45...several pages of changes were totally lost. What happened to
the saves I had been doing???

<putting forehead-sized dents in desk!!!>

Sara

 

[Mary Sauer]

What version Publisher?
Look in the Windows temp folder, you could get lucky. It should have a .pub
extension.

 

[cymbalzzz]

It's happened again!!!
Another issue of my 24-page newsletter...office assistant does the
little "saving the file" dance all the time. I last worked on my file
on 1/12/05, and now it tells me my last version is what I did on
1/8/05. I've lost four days and about 30 hours of intense work. I'm
reduced to tears. Nothing in temp files.

 

[cymbalzzz]

It's happened again!!!
Another issue of my 24-page newsletter...office assistant does the
little "saving the file" dance all the time. I last worked on my file
on 1/12/05, and now it tells me my last version is what I did on
1/8/05. I've lost four days and about 30 hours of intense work. I'm
reduced to tears. Nothing in temp files.

 

[Terje Martinsen]

Why not simply TURN OFF the autosave function (Tools/Options/Save)?
Or even better, make a backup copy every now and then. Thats simple, good
housekeeping.
I edit a 48 pages color magazine 6 times a year, and make a "save as" every
30 minutes with a different name.
Never had the problem.

tm

 

[Mike Koewler]

Terje,

Just a note about "Save As." If you are saving a file that has become
corrupt, all the work you do will be lost. It is better to save the
file, close it, then re-open it. Like you, I was saving the file under a
different name (Page1a, 1b, 1c, etc.) and later found out the last four
versions were bad. :-(

Mike