I posted a message last week about my Physics coursework, about Jet Engines. I had written 3000 words at the time…I clicked off it at the end of the night, it asked if I wanted to save, but I didn’t because I could have sworn that I had already saved it…obviously not 😡 I only have what I’d done as far as the previous time, a mere 400 words of it. Does anyone know if there is absolutely any solution to get the data back? I know in the past my computer has crashed before saving a word document, and there is some kind of auto-recovery procedure where it takes you to where you left off without saving. But I’m not sure if that works, seeing as it was about 4 or 5 days ago and the computer has been turned on/off since.
I’d be so incredibly appreciative if anyone could suggest a solution.
By: tenthije - 20th March 2007 at 17:53
Hi Peter,
I tried thatand found it, but its encoded and I’ve been through the list of encoding to try and translate the text, but none seem to work :confused:
Any ideas anyone? This is my final piece of coursework for my A-level Physics, and is due in on Friday.
Hi Dan,
can you try and E-mail it to me? Or send it over MSN? You got my MSN/E-mail name right?
By: Arabella-Cox - 20th March 2007 at 06:34
Sorry…, when you have a file open in Word and are making changes to it it generally creates a new document that has a ~$ at the start, so if your document is called physics101.doc when you start to work on it word will create a file called ~$ysics101.doc in the same folder. If word crashes or there is a power cut, or you just want to use the control-Z undo feature and undo all your changes word will use that ~$… file to track them all. If it crashes then when you start it again it will ask if you want to revocer the document. If you say yes it will copy all the changes in the ~$… file into your original and then delete the ~$… file. If you say no it will just delete the ~$ file. Equally if it doesn’t crash and there is no power cut and you close word it will ask you if you want to save the changes… if you say yes all your changes in the ~$ file will be applied to your original file and then the ~$ file will be deleted. If you choose no then word will simply delete the ~$ file which had stored all your changes.
Your best bet is to shut down your computer and get it to start in DOS mode. Then go to another computer and download a DOS program that finds deleted files. Copy it onto a floppy and run it on your computer. Go to the folder on your hard drive that had your file saved and look to find the file with the ~$ in front. If you have been using your computer since you deleted the file… even just starting up and shutting down you might lose the deleted files data. When a file is deleted it isn’t actually removed, it is just tagged as free space. When you save info the computer will simply use up the free space, logging on and loggin off and using your computer writes lots of files. If you have been surfing the internet also writes files so if you have been using your computer then the empty space has probably been written over and without spending thousands of dollars you are not going to get anything back off it.
Sorry…
By: wannabe pilot - 19th March 2007 at 23:37
Hi Peter,
I tried thatand found it, but its encoded and I’ve been through the list of encoding to try and translate the text, but none seem to work :confused:
Any ideas anyone? This is my final piece of coursework for my A-level Physics, and is due in on Friday.
By: tenthije - 19th March 2007 at 17:07
IF there was a autosave file, then it will be a hidden file in the “my docs” folder. If I am not mistaken the extention will be .tmp or something similar. This file will continue to be there untill it is written over. So assuming you have not made a new word doc since, and assuming the autosave option did its work, then you should be able to find the file there.
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