Keystrokes Stored in Memory 1

[Nepheligenous]

Hi,
I'm not an assembly language programmer at all, but this question (I think) relates to it. I had just created a document in MS-WORD 2002 (quite a long document, too) and a friend of mine was reading it. He closed MS-WORD without saving so I lost everything I had written.

My question is: were all those keystrokes stored in RAM somewhere? If so, whereabouts in RAM were they stored? Would it be possible to "retrieve" a file that wasn't saved? It's not that I want to retrieve what I lost, it's just a hypothetical question.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[zeitghost]

Correct.

The keystrokes were stored in memory.

The chances of you recovering any of them in a Windoze system approaches zero.

However, Word does create temporary files so you might be able to find the temp file it created as you typed the document in.

rgds
Zeit.

 

[butthead]

you got the star dude cause I just had the opportunity to search the temp files to recover a lot of work I had thought I had lost. I inadvertently did a quick exit from windows and I had not saved the doc. I remembered your post and it saved me a lot of grief. thanks bunches.

TC

 

[zeitghost]

Thanks, mate, glad to help.