YCCMB Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 So, last night I was working on a translation, and my computer started playing silly ***s. I frequently have a problem whereby a key (or something) gets "stuck", and every time I click on, say, a forum post, it opens in a new tab. clicking on other keys to perform actions like going back a page opens dialogue boxes I wasn't expecting. THAT isn't my problem, because I can simply restart the computer and the problem resolves itself. It's annoying, but not life-threatening.So, last night, it happened again, and as always I decided to restart. Only at the time I was working on this translation, and had several documents open in Word. So, of course, I saved each of them before shutting down.Or so I thought......What I had failed to remember was that I'd opened them from the download in a zip folder, from which I'd then opened each individual document in Word format, and I'd forgotten that I was working on them directly from there, so the files were actually still .temp files. So, when I restarted the computer, they'd disappeared, along with all the work I'd already done on them.I have looked everywhere, and I can't find them. I've done the work again, BUT I did save them the first time, just forgetting to save them as Word documents onto my hard drive.I've looked in "downloads" and in AppData/temp and searched for them, but no sign anywhere. It doesn't matter now, as I have redone the work, but I wondered if the first attempt might still be lurking somewhere I've not been able to discover? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 This might help...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/advice/8768505/How-do-I-recover-deleted-files.htmlor this maybe...http://www.wikihow.com/Retrieve-Temporary-Internet-Files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 Oh, Betty, I am in the running for the Forum's most computer illiterate donkey so I can't suggest anything and indeed you lost me about the second line of your post.However, I do want to sympathise and, if it was me who'd lost all that work, I would have had myself a good old weep. Just a message of support.....[kiss]PS email all received, many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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