Still Reeling

M

mutefan

Yesterday I did some of my best work ever (of an academic nature) on a
new Acer laptop using a trial Office 2007 version of WORD. I worked
for seven hours straight. I saw the Autosave feature kick in every ten
minutes; I worked as I have never worked in a long time.

At 12 (noon), I saved the file in 2003 format, then wanted to transfer
the file to a flash drive to take it to the university where I work. I
was perplexed but not immediately stunned to find the date/time stamp
stating the file was two days old...the original file, prior to the
seven hours of editing.

Ultimately, I found an ASD file. I opened it. By this time, the
suffering quotient was out the roof; it got higher when I saw that the
ASD file, as the file saved on the hard drive, was the original, not
the seven hour labor.

I am scared, stunned, furious. I did nothing to make this happen. If I
had used a twelve year old P3 with Office 2003, this wouldn't have
happened. I know it, because nothing like this has ever happened since
I've used Microsoft products starting with Windows 3.1.

If there is any help or remote assistance anyone here can direct me to
in order for this nightmare not to remain, I'd appreciate a response
greatly. To repeatL this is a new laptop, with a trial version of
2007, which I was using only because I have to use it at the
university. Ironically, I had debated uninstalling it before my full
day of writing and installing the older software.

Thank you.
 
G

Gordon

Yesterday I did some of my best work ever (of an academic nature) on a
new Acer laptop using a trial Office 2007 version of WORD. I worked
for seven hours straight. I saw the Autosave feature kick in every ten
minutes; I worked as I have never worked in a long time.

At 12 (noon), I saved the file in 2003 format, then wanted to transfer
the file to a flash drive to take it to the university where I work. I
was perplexed but not immediately stunned to find the date/time stamp
stating the file was two days old...the original file, prior to the
seven hours of editing.

Was this a file that had been received by email? Did you do just "save" or
"Save As"?
 
M

mutefan

Was this a file that had been received by email? Did you do just "save" or
"Save As"?

No, this was a file I created in 1994! I continually saved, and then
finally Saved As a 2003 document...and then--nothing. No bit/byte of
it. Gone. I spent today at the university IT lab, where someone tried
to help me without success. The trial version of Office has expired,
so I will install (gladly) my old Office 2000. But surely this file,
autosaved and autosaved and autosaved, has to be somewhere on my hard
drive.
 
H

Herb Tyson [MVP]

AutoRecover does NOT save the file. It saves an .asd version of the file
that would be used only if Word crashes or is otherwise unceremoniously
closed. Each time you explicitly save a file, Word deletes the .asd. It then
waits until the AutoRecover interval passes, and it then creates a new .asd
file. The idea is that after x minutes pass, Word creates an .asd file. If
you explicitly save the file, then the version on disk should now be the
most recent version. After the AutoRecover period passes, it creates an
..asd.... which gets removed the nex time you actually save.

If the file had been in Word 2007 format, look not only for .doc files, but
for .docx files, as well (.docm if the document contained macros). If you
had Word's "Always create backup..." feature turned on, then also look for
files named "Backup of...".

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


Was this a file that had been received by email? Did you do just "save" or
"Save As"?

No, this was a file I created in 1994! I continually saved, and then
finally Saved As a 2003 document...and then--nothing. No bit/byte of
it. Gone. I spent today at the university IT lab, where someone tried
to help me without success. The trial version of Office has expired,
so I will install (gladly) my old Office 2000. But surely this file,
autosaved and autosaved and autosaved, has to be somewhere on my hard
drive.
 
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