Retrieve Unsaved data

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Swaroop

Hi,

Please help me retrieve unsaved data which I
accidentally closed without saving.

ThanQ

Swaroop
 
The process to look for it, may be more painful than just re-doing it. But,
if you've got the time ...

You will need to look for a possible tmp file. It is possible that
PowerPoint made a working file of the edited work you were doing.

Go to your temp folder and look for all the files that are about the right
size or a bit bigger. One at a time, rename a copy to a PPT file and see if
PowerPoint can open it. This, depending on how many files, could take you
days. Even then, there is no promise that you will find your lost data.

I'm sorry this has happened and that the solution is so ugly, but there is
an important new add-in that will help keep this from happening in the
future. Look at this FAQ:
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00494.htm


Bill Dilworth, Microsoft PPT MVP
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Thanx very much for the suggestion Bill

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The process to look for it, may be more painful than just re-doing it. But,
if you've got the time ...

You will need to look for a possible tmp file. It is possible that
PowerPoint made a working file of the edited work you were doing.

Go to your temp folder and look for all the files that are about the right
size or a bit bigger. One at a time, rename a copy to a PPT file and see if
PowerPoint can open it. This, depending on how many files, could take you
days. Even then, there is no promise that you will find your lost data.

I'm sorry this has happened and that the solution is so ugly, but there is
an important new add-in that will help keep this from happening in the
future. Look at this FAQ:
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00494.htm


Bill Dilworth, Microsoft PPT MVP
===============
Please spend a few minutes checking vestprog2@
out www.pptfaq.com This link will yahoo.
answer most of our questions, before com
you think to ask them.

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----- Swaroop wrote: ----

Hi

Please help me retrieve unsaved data which I
accidentally closed without saving

Than

Hello

I too, need help retrieving unsaved work which I accidentally closed without saving. How can I

Thanks
Countrygirl
 
I too, need help retrieving unsaved work which I accidentally closed
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without saving. How can I ?

It's probably gone. You can check your *.TMP files, though. If you find one
from about the correct timeframe, open PPT, then use File/Open and navigate
to that TMP file and see if it will open.
 
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Hello,

Unfortunately there is no built-in (in-the-box) capability to save multiple
versions of presentations so that, for example, if accidently delete or
overwrite the most recent version or close a presentation without saving
it, there will be be an older version that you can use. However, if you are
using Windows SharePoint Services and saving your presentations (and other
documents) in a SharePoint document library, you can use SharePoint
Services to enable versioning so that you can go back to previous versions
of the presentation if you accidentally save over and existing presentation.

However, if versioning or some other form of automatically making backup
copies or automatically saving your presentation files directly from
PowerPoint (not requiring SharePoint or some other external document
management technology) is important to you (or anyone else reading this
message), please send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to
Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
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development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible. Each submission should be
a single suggestion (not a list of suggestions).

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Microsoft Corporation
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