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[Rhiannon]

If someone is retarded enough to open an essay from an email (and not save it), spend a few hours typing 6 pages of calulations and discussion, then save it when closing Word.

Where the hell does it go?

I've looked everywhere.
if it got saved to a tempory folder would it have been deleted once I logged off?

[Marc]

try hitting start then search and type its name, it may work, may not, good luck

[rowan]

Before you get into anything to complicated, have you

Checked the file attachment on the email to see if this is the updated version?

Have you gone into Search, type the document name and waited for it to scan your pc?
START > SEARCH > FOR FILES OR FOLDERS

You should also try the temporary Windows/Word fold as World has an inbuilt auto save function and may have saved it to one of the temp folders..

These are some simple idea's but if youv done these and still no luck, let me know and i'll give you some more indepth info on what to do!!

[Rhiannon]

Yeah I've tried both
It was a public computer so I thik its been deleted

[MattJimF]

if it got saved it will be in the tempory internet folder, C:\Documents and settings\*users name\local settings (*user name is usually your name).

[Rhiannon]

Is the tempory internet folder on the computer I was orginally on? Or will it be ok to log in on another computer (uni computers)

[Ghostwriter]

Go back into to word and start a new document. You don't need to type anything but click file, then save.. and you should see from there what folder the new files are being saved into.

[daveofficer]

what to do is open word again(if you're still at the same computer) and select a new document or any document then click save as. the folder that opens should be the folder that you last saved something to and that's where your document should be. if you don't know how to get to that folder click the 'up one level' button and follow it till you get to a directory you recognise then work from there to open it again and save it where you want to.

this might not work, as i'm not sure if every program opens the save as directory in the place you last saved to but i've tried that a few times on other programs when i've not been paying attention where i was saving things and it worked then, so worth a shot.

[Rhiannon]

tried, I also save edited, saved it the same way, found it the edited version. So tried the same thing on the original computer but it wasn't there.

I give up.

[daveofficer]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

Go back into to word and start a new document. You don't need to type anything but click file, then save.. and you should see from there what folder the new files are being saved into.

yea, what he said

damn my slow typing.