M
mutefan
Try this: Make a copy of the .ASD file and change the extension from
.ASD to .DOCX. Then try to open the file in Word.
I was able to open the .ASD file, and the things I can't understand is
What was AutoRecovered was the original document I opened at 5 a.m.
this morning *before* I began the job. Since the job was AutoRecovered
at the exact time I Saved the seven hour-long edit, at 12:05 p.m.,
what should have been AutoRecovered was the edit, not the original
file from 5 in the morning.
I didn't Close without saving (and even if I had done this, wouldn't a
warning message ask if I wanted to Save?). If I saw AutoSave activity
every ten minutes in the Taskbar, and if I saved the document to Word
2003 when I closed, there should be *some* artifact on this new
computer. I mean *something*--right?
I will give up now (and also try to find a forum where people are as
civil as you have been, the next time I have a Word-related problem).
Possibly other posters here have never had such a severe loss of data.
I can't account for the level of hostility. Thank you for your help.