pheochromocytoma Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Hey yall, So, I am working on a project this summer. I had spent an entire day writing a particular document using Word (for mac OS X) and had saved said document into my project folder. I know I had saved the file because when I open Word I can still see the file title under "open recent". The file is not in my project folder where I saved it, when I click on the "open recent" tab and click on this file it says "Microsoft Word was unable to locate [document title].docx, would you like to locate the file yourself?" I have used the search function to search through all the folders on my hard drive and and checked the trash (repeatedly in hope that it will come home to me). HELP! Any ideas on what I can do?? I have looked at some forums online but to no avail. Help a brotha out PLEASE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legion Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 There should be an autorecovery folder. Mine is called "Office 2011 Autorecovery". See if you can find it in that folder. Report back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheochromocytoma Posted June 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Bin there, nothin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technicity Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 So basically, the file has been moved or removed since you last saved it. You've already tried Spotlight, and looked in the trash... It wasn't on a removable drive or a network drive? Perhaps it's been renamed? If you're using Lion you can go to "All My Files" in Finder and sort by Date Modified (in Snow Leopard you can bring up all your files using a Spotlight query - or search for all .doc or .docx files). I know this doesn't help now, but for the future - when I'm working on a big project I like to keep the project folder inside my Dropbox folder. It saves versions and even if you delete it, you can recover it within a certain time period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legion Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Why don't you try writing a sentence in spotlight if you remember exactly what you wrote. This may help if the file was renamed somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheochromocytoma Posted June 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Thanks guys, I've tried all of that. I didn't backup to my external (shame on me). It's not renamed I looked through all the docs modified that day and it is nowhere in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legion Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Hopefully you haven't tried this one yet. go to finder and type .asd Open the most recent ones and see if any of them is the document you are looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheochromocytoma Posted June 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 not in there i don't like where this is headin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerkstore Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 It's very easy to recover deleted files. When you delete something, it doesn't actually remove it from the hard drive it just tells the file table that the data can be overwritten. I use Recuva for Windows to do this, I don't know what the Mac equivalent is. Just google "mac file recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legion Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 It's very easy to recover deleted files. When you delete something, it doesn't actually remove it from the hard drive it just tells the file table that the data can be overwritten. I use Recuva for Windows to do this, I don't know what the Mac equivalent is. Just google "mac file recovery. Its called time machine. But im pretty sure OP has already tried that. I dont think he deleted the file though. So there is no point in using that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerkstore Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Its called time machine. But im pretty sure OP has already tried that. I dont think he deleted the file though. So there is no point in using that. No time machine is a backup program. This searches you hard drive for deleted files and recovers them. If he didn't delete it then he just needs to use spotlight or another search program that does a deep search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legion Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 No time machine is a backup program. This searches you hard drive for deleted files and recovers them. If he didn't delete it then he just needs to use spotlight or another search program that does a deep search. time machine automatically backs up your files so if you delete something by accident there will be a spare copy saved. So you could say its backup/recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheochromocytoma Posted June 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 Thanks bros, still haven't found it. Downloaded mackeeper trial version which is scanning my drive as we speak to see if it can dig somethin up. We'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinbadpit Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Hi, You can try docx file recovery software as it has the capacity to recover deleted word file on Mac. First you can download trial version of this software and check whether it is able to recover your missing word file or not. If it is working, then save the recovered file using licensed version of this software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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