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

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pr0crast

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Apr 2, 2007
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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.
 
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.
 
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...
 
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
 
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