MS office and saving

[bobby-jo]

I have a friend who e-mailed her work home from college, did some more to it and saved it, th only problem is she now cant find it.

when she had finnished editing the document (and MS office one) she clicked close and when asked if she wanted to save clicked yes. the document saved and closed, she did not need to name the file or select where to save it. she has searched the computer (both manually and using the search tool) and cannot find it. :confused:

this is a long shot i know but does any1 know of anywhere th doc may be 'hidden' or backed up or anything??

cheers guys

[doctorgonzo]

She's going to have to look in her temp directory, as that is where attachments from e-mails are saved. With Windows XP, look in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp. The Local Settings directory is usually hidden so she will have to unhide it. However, the document may not be there depending on the e-mail program used.

Whenever you get an attachment and want to work on it, save it somewhere first! Countless times I have had people open a Word document in an e-mail, work on it, click "Save", and close everything out, only to find that it's gone because they didn't save it to My Documents, the Desktop, or somewhere other than the Temp directory.