Undo work in Publisher

[Kell]

Yesterday I worked on a document, saved it, etc. Today I have been working
on the same document. Saving changes when reminded, etc. Was about to
finish for the night and thought I'd review the whole document. I think that
at some time while working on the document yesterday I made a mistake, in
fact deleted a large chunk of work. Is there any way to return way, way back
to retrieve this? I have now saved the document as v2, so I have v1 to work
on. All advice greatly received - distressed

 

[Mary Sauer]

Might look in the temp folder. In Windows Explorer, in the address bar type %temp%,
find temp files that begin with pub, change the .tmp to .pub or look at the dates in
the detailed view.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

that's why i hate autosave.


| Might look in the temp folder. In Windows Explorer, in the address bar
type %temp%,
| find temp files that begin with pub, change the .tmp to .pub or look at
the dates in
| the detailed view.
|
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| | > Yesterday I worked on a document, saved it, etc. Today I have been
working
| > on the same document. Saving changes when reminded, etc. Was about to
| > finish for the night and thought I'd review the whole document. I think
that
| > at some time while working on the document yesterday I made a mistake,
in
| > fact deleted a large chunk of work. Is there any way to return way, way
back
| > to retrieve this? I have now saved the document as v2, so I have v1 to
work
| > on. All advice greatly received - distressed
|
|

 

[Ed Bennett]

that's why i hate autosave.

AutoSave doesn't save to the document, but to a separate recovery file.

Saving multiple file versions (and regular backups) is always advisable,
though, for precisely this reason.

 

[John Inzer]

Saving multiple file versions (and regular backups) is
always advisable, though, for precisely this reason.

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Much like backing up a digital image collection
on CDs, DVDs, etc. I'm amazed that so many
users have thousands of digital images on their
hard drive with no external backup what-so-ever.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

really i'd never noticed that...where are they located then...do they have
similar names as the orig file?
i never use it because i'd assumed it over-wrote the orig file.


| Rob Giordano (Crash) <[email protected]> was very
| recently heard to utter:
| > that's why i hate autosave.
|
| AutoSave doesn't save to the document, but to a separate recovery file.
|
| Saving multiple file versions (and regular backups) is always advisable,
| though, for precisely this reason.
|
| --
| Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
|
|

 

[Ed Bennett]

really i'd never noticed that...where are they located then...do they
have similar names as the orig file?
i never use it because i'd assumed it over-wrote the orig file.

I'm not sure in Publisher - I think it just uses the temp folder.

Word uses the strange mysterious temp files in the same folder as the
document is saved (WRD1234.TMP and _~me of Document.doc)