Email attachments opened, edited, saved, closed, and lost forever

[Dave6429]

I've had this happen several times: I will open an email attachment, edit
it, save it, but not use the save as button, think I have saved it, but it is
only temporarily saved in a temporary file, close it and I'm told it is gone
and unretrievable. It doesn't show up in the recently used documents
section of Word or Excel. It's now the only place I ever lose large chunks
of data due to autosave--a welcome addition for a long-time veteran curser, I
mean user, of the home computer.

Suggestion: Have a specific prompt or macro to go to "save as" when any
document is trying to save to a temp file. Or prompt when closing and it's
in a temp file-- "you are going to lose any changes" like there are in other
places.

It is extremely frustrating!!!! I have tried to remember but obviously have
not succeeded!


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[Kirsty]

I agree. But you usually CAN find the document, took me ages to work it out ...
You need to do a couple of things. (Vista Word

One: Reopen the attachment from the emai
Two: Go to file, prepare, Propertie
Three: In the upper right hand corner, you will see a file destination. Copy tha
Four: Paste the destination into a navigation bar (found by right clicking the Start button and selecting "Explore All". This is the thing at the very top.
Five: Start erasing (from right to left) the text until multiple options with similar file names appear. (If your attachment is called "Paper" you are looking for things called "Paper (1)" or "Paper (2)
Six: Select files until you find the one you were editing.

Hope that helps!

 

[Cleo]

Thank you very much for the suggestion, I tried it and it WORKED, when the
experts were saying that it could not be done.
Cleo