RECOVERING DOCUMENT

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How do I recover a document that I accidently saved
another document over? In other words I
saved "docuB.doc" as "docuA.doc" and now need to
recover "docuA.doc". How can this be done????
 
Unless you are set to make autobackups (Tools, Options, Save TAB, "Always
create backup copy"), it is lost. SORRY!
 
-----Original Message-----
Unless you are set to make autobackups (Tools, Options, Save TAB, "Always
create backup copy"), it is lost. SORRY!

--
Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint)
www.pttinc.com
Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/
"Success, something you measure when you are through succeeding."




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I do have autobackups on. I followed the instructions
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in the knowledge base as to how to recover an autobackup
and still no luck. Is there a trick to re-opening or
recovering these autobackups? I used article 827099.
 
What you are looking for are the autosave files that stay on your computer
if it locks up with Word open. These files are saved every 10 minutes
(usual setting). When you close Word normally, these files go away because
Word thinks you have saved your document. In your case, you saved it, but
over another file. No autorecover files exist in that case. Did you click
"Tools", "Options", then the "Save" TAB and see if "always create backup
copy" is checked? A backup copy is a duplicate of your Word file
(basically). But then again if you think about it, a backup copy of the
wrong file is still no good for you! SORRY!

By the way, which version of Word do you have?
 
The "save as" command doesn't overwrite the original
document, it just saves a copy with a new name. So if you
were in docuB.doc and clicked "save as" and named it
docuA.doc, you now have two files. Word closed docuB.doc
when you saved as docuA.doc, but docuB.doc is still on
your computer. If you don't remember where it originally
was saved, go to the Start menu and Search for Files and
Folders. Type in "docuB.doc" and it will show you where
the file is.
 
-----Original Message-----
What you are looking for are the autosave files that stay on your computer
if it locks up with Word open. These files are saved every 10 minutes
(usual setting). When you close Word normally, these files go away because
Word thinks you have saved your document. In your case, you saved it, but
over another file. No autorecover files exist in that case. Did you click
"Tools", "Options", then the "Save" TAB and see if "always create backup
copy" is checked? A backup copy is a duplicate of your Word file
(basically). But then again if you think about it, a backup copy of the
wrong file is still no good for you! SORRY!

By the way, which version of Word do you have?

--
Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint)
www.pttinc.com
Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/
"Success, something you measure when you are through succeeding."


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Ah. Then it is lost forever. I have opened and closed
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word many times. I have searched and searched for the
backup copy. only the one of the new document exists. I
have word 2002. oh gosh. I am sooo upset. LOL But
thank you for your quick responses. I have a backup of
the original document from two weeks ago, but I had done
so much work since then and was going to backup again
tonight. Ugh ugh ugh. You are very helpful and quick! I
appreciate your help and concern. Do you know of any
magic spells that may work?
 
Hi Deborah,

What you wrote is quite true;
but, sorry, you missed the point.

If I save A as B, I now have two files that can be identical, or nearly,
depending when I last saved A (If I did 3 hours of work on A, then used
"Saves as", now B will be very different from A as there will be 3 hours of
work in one (B) but not in the other).

But now imagine I already had a file named B, so my "Save as" flushed the
old B and replaced it with a new B from A.
How do you recover, if you can, the old B?
That was the original question.
--
Cheers!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
(e-mail address removed)
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org
 
AH...thank you for advice, but I guess what I really did
was called "docuB.doc" by "docuA.doc" therefor
overwriting the original document. "docuB.doc" does not
exist as that name. "docuB.doc" is now "docuA.doc" and
there is no more "docuA.doc". Ugh. Thanks for your help
though.
 
I do know of a trick that might help out. When you open Word and click
"file", "Open, browse to your file, select it, then instead of clicking the
"Open" button, click the arrow next to the button and click "Open as copy".
This keeps the original as is and saves this as "Copy of...". Not the most
efficient way to do business, but until you learn not to overwrite...!
<VBG>

Glad to help. Wish I had a magic potion (How about Cap'nMorgan?)
 
Hello. Sorry I should of explained the situation more
clearly. This instance was a FIRST time save....there was
no previous save of "DocuB" so when I accidently saved it
as "DocuA" this left a new "DocuA" but NO "DocuB".

I caused this by choosing "Save As" and then selecting an
existing file name "DocuA" from the list to avoid typing
the complicated file name again. I then failed to change
the "A" at the end of the file name to a "B" (which would
of created a separate document). This resulted in DocuB
being saved as "DocuA" and hence the contents of "DocuA"
were overwritten completely with the intended contents
of "DocuB". The result being the same as if I had only
chosen "save" instead of "save as". So I am left with
only "DocuA" name with new contents. Again, no "DocuB"
was ever saved.

I dont ever remember being so careless in all my years of
writing....so caution to everyone with a weary mind!

P.S. Yes, I am aware of the Version function in Word, but
this was such a dramatic change, I wanted to keep it
totally separate....and hence lesson learned as I have
lost so much work...and NO, the versions associated with
DocuA do not contain enough of the original version to
save my butt.... :)

Thanks for your help though! That there really are
people out there that are so nice and smart and willing
to help is very inspiring. I'm still open to any magic
spells anyone may have to help.....
 
Hi chohbe,

It doesn't matter that there was never a real DocB, the result is the same,
you lost the original DocA by overwriting it with the "new DocB" when saving
DocB for the first time.
The point I was making to Deborah was that your problem was trying to
recover the original DocA that you lost when overwriting it with the New
DocB. She thought (at least this is what I understood she thought when I
read her post!) that you wanted to recover the original DocB (Which we now
know never existed in the first place, since all this happened after a first
time save of DocB)

Anyway, sadly, the result still stands. You lost the original DocA and there
is no way I know of getting it back... :-(

You are right, writing about stuff like this can be very confusing!
--
Cheers!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
(e-mail address removed)
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org


"chohbe" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de [email protected]...
Hello. Sorry I should of explained the situation more
clearly. This instance was a FIRST time save....there was
no previous save of "DocuB" so when I accidently saved it
as "DocuA" this left a new "DocuA" but NO "DocuB".

I caused this by choosing "Save As" and then selecting an
existing file name "DocuA" from the list to avoid typing
the complicated file name again. I then failed to change
the "A" at the end of the file name to a "B" (which would
of created a separate document). This resulted in DocuB
being saved as "DocuA" and hence the contents of "DocuA"
were overwritten completely with the intended contents
of "DocuB". The result being the same as if I had only
chosen "save" instead of "save as". So I am left with
only "DocuA" name with new contents. Again, no "DocuB"
was ever saved.

I dont ever remember being so careless in all my years of
writing....so caution to everyone with a weary mind!

P.S. Yes, I am aware of the Version function in Word, but
this was such a dramatic change, I wanted to keep it
totally separate....and hence lesson learned as I have
lost so much work...and NO, the versions associated with
DocuA do not contain enough of the original version to
save my butt.... :)

Thanks for your help though! That there really are
people out there that are so nice and smart and willing
to help is very inspiring. I'm still open to any magic
spells anyone may have to help.....
 
P.S. Yes, I am aware of the Version function in Word, but
this was such a dramatic change, I wanted to keep it
totally separate....and hence lesson learned as I have
lost so much work...and NO, the versions associated with
DocuA do not contain enough of the original version to
save my butt.... :)
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Don't feel bad about not using Versions, they are a common cause of
corruption anyhow.

DM
 
Ah. Thank you very much for the cap'n morgans. Already
have had some Baileys too.... Thanks again. Back to the
keyboard...
 
Well, I see there's bit a lot of water under the bridge here, and some of it
is a bit muddy. The fact is that there is still hope. You say that you have
"Always create backup copy" enabled, so in fact you can (probably) find at
least a vestige of the overwritten document, provided it had been saved at
least twice. Open the folder where the document lives and display All Files.
Look for one named "Backup of <filename>.wbk." This will be the previous
version of the file you overwrote. If you save fairly often, it will be
within 5-15 minutes' work of being the same as the one you lost.

For more on the various Save Options, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/AutomaticSave.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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