opening word documnet attachments from outlook

[Chad]

I recently opened a word document attachment from an e-
mail and began editing the document and saving regularly.
Usually I save the attachment to a different folder before
making changes but in this instance forgot to do so. Now,
several days later, when I open up (what I thought) was my
saved document from the temporary folder, it only contains
the original attachment. I am running officeXP on a
Windows 2000 operating system. Is there any way of
reovering the document with the changes that I had made?
Where did the saved version of the changed attachment go?
I would certainly appreciate any help.

Thanks,
Chad

 

[Jezebel]

Try re-opening it from the email. On my system Office 2K), email attachments
that you open get saved automatically to Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\OLK2.

 

[Graham Mayor]

If you open a document directly from e-mail (incidentally a reckless thing
to do) then a temporary file is created in the user temp folder (without
checking this may be a hidden file). Saves to this file will be saved in
that temp file. When you close Word and/or Windows that temp file should be
removed. You *may* be able to recover the file with a utility like File
Recovery, but the chances are that the space it occupied will have been
overwritten, in which case it is gone. The original unedited version will
still be attached to the e-mail.

Always save attachments *before* opening them. In fact I wish Microsoft
would remove the facility to open them directly. It would save a lot of
people from themselves.

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