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CorsaLad

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18th Mar 04 at 00:41

ive been working on a piece of work and ive just opened a copy of it adn the work ive been doing for the last 3 hours hasnt saved! i have saved on more than one occassion!

please help

cheers

james

ps its in word

Stuckey

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18th Mar 04 at 00:42

u sure u opened the saved file?

CorsaLad16v

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18th Mar 04 at 00:43

doesn't word write a .tmp or summat like that to ur harddrive for recovery purposes? u may have opened that by mistake

CorsaLad

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18th Mar 04 at 00:44

ive been working on it since 12am...so tired...can someone explain wot i need to do please

Stuckey

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18th Mar 04 at 00:45

quote:
Originally posted by CorsaLad16v
doesn't word write a .tmp or summat like that to ur harddrive for recovery purposes? u may have opened that by mistake

isn't it a hidden file tho?

who would be stupid enough to open it

Stuckey

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18th Mar 04 at 00:46

quote:
Originally posted by CorsaLad
ive been working on it since 12am...so tired...can someone explain wot i need to do please

check u opened the write file

CorsaLad

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18th Mar 04 at 00:46

im on a uni network if this makes a difference

CorsaLad16v

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18th Mar 04 at 00:46

tiz hidden yea, but i got the "hidden files" showing on my computer for when i log in

lol so thats y they're there, but he said he's opened a copy of it so figured it may be that

Kenni

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18th Mar 04 at 00:47

one of those last minute jobbies

Stuckey

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18th Mar 04 at 00:48

a copy is proably a copy of an older version of the file, i think he has saved the "more up to date" one elsewhere

try searching for the doc

or have they disabled search at your uni

CorsaLad

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18th Mar 04 at 00:49

yes it is disabled

Stuckey

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18th Mar 04 at 00:51

search everywhere where u can save .doc files and open them all, u may of saved it elsewhere

also click file in word and it should have the file in the last opened/saved .doc's is it there?

CorsaLad

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18th Mar 04 at 00:52

for some reason it wont show the files in the last opened bit

do you recon a restart would do anything?

CorsaLad16v

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18th Mar 04 at 00:53

click on open in word and search thru all the folders, may be under a different name or saved in a different place than u originally saved it

Stuckey

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18th Mar 04 at 00:54

search EVERYWHERE where u can save files for word .docs

CorsaLad

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18th Mar 04 at 01:01

no luck

looks like im fucked

Stuckey

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18th Mar 04 at 01:02

i know it alte u sure u were using word?

Stuckey

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18th Mar 04 at 01:03

bring up task manager use it to close word

then open it and see if it recvers any files/work

CorsaLad16v

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18th Mar 04 at 01:04

task manager may be disabled too tho if he's on uni network

CorsaLad

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18th Mar 04 at 01:05

definately using word.

there si a prob with these pcs i think because it says ur diretory is full when its not, but if u save it to the desktop and then drop it into the folder its ok :S

CorsaLad

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18th Mar 04 at 01:07

task manager does work

Stuckey

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18th Mar 04 at 01:07

i have run outta ideas sorry

check recycle bin

CorsaLad

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18th Mar 04 at 01:09

nah mate, good of u to try

no luck with recycle bin either