.doc recovery needed... please help ASAP!!!!!!!!

[pr0crast]

I am a moron. I was editing a very important .doc for many hours this morning and last night, and I had originally opened it from a .rar archive. When I closed Word (2007), it asked me if I wanted to save it and I said YES. But now the file is nowhere to be found. It is not in the RAR archive and I cannot find it in any TEMP file. I have done a search for *.doc, *.wbk, *.tmp, etc, and I am having no luck.

1) Where should I look?
2) Do I need to get a data recovery program, and if so, what do I do with it?

Many, many thanks in advance if you can help me.

 

[eyec]

go back into Word and it should be on the list of Docs last accessed. Click on it and open it up, save it to a location you know where to find it.

 

[pr0crast]

Thanks for the suggestion, but it is not in that list! I'm sure this has to do with the fact that I opened it from a rar archive without picking a local place for the file to save to...

 

[eyec]

search for files beginning with a ~. the extention may have been something other than what you are thinking it was saved as. whereas the normal temp files begin with the tilde.

good luck

 

[ptdd]

hi, please look the article: How to recover lost Word files?

http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/recover-lost-word-files.htm