working with E-mail Attachments

[Ian]

Hi,

I received an e-mail with a Word attachment. I opened it and worked on it,
then saved it. Where is it?

I realise that i should have done a 'saved as' then renamed it and saved
where I knew where it was, but i did not, I just pressed save and now I
cannot find it.

I did alot of work on it and could do with finding it or repeat several
hours of work.

Your help would be greatfully appreciated.

thanks in advance Ian

 

[Peter Foldes]

If it was a Word attachment and then you saved it do the following to find it.

Simple. Do a search for *.doc and see where it is on your drive

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

By default, Word saves attachments in %userprofile%/Documents.

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[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Hi,

I received an e-mail with a Word attachment. I opened it and worked on it,
then saved it. Where is it?

I realise that i should have done a 'saved as' then renamed it and saved
where I knew where it was, but i did not, I just pressed save and now I
cannot find it.

I did alot of work on it and could do with finding it or repeat several
hours of work.

Your help would be greatfully appreciated.

thanks in advance Ian

Unless you used Save As to save it outside the mail message, it might be in
Temporary Internet Files but you're probably just plain out of luck.

 

[Joseph Meehan]

Have you checked the recently used files list in Word?

 

[Ian]

Yes, not in there.

Have you checked the recently used files list in Word?

 

[Ian]

Yes, tried that, not there, thanks anyway.

Unless you used Save As to save it outside the mail message, it might be in
Temporary Internet Files but you're probably just plain out of luck.

 

[Ian]

Tried that, not there, thanks anyway.

If it was a Word attachment and then you saved it do the following to find it.

Simple. Do a search for *.doc and see where it is on your drive

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[Ian]

I have looked, it's not there, is there another route i should be using other
that to look in Documents.

 

[Gordon]

Yes, tried that, not there, thanks anyway.

Try here:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.Outlook\xxxxxxxx

 

[DDW]

I have looked, it's not there, is there another route i should be using other
that to look in Documents.

What is your email client?


DDW

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Hi,

I received an e-mail with a Word attachment. I opened it and worked on
it,
then saved it. Where is it?

I realise that i should have done a 'saved as' then renamed it and
saved
where I knew where it was, but i did not, I just pressed save and now
I
cannot find it.

I did alot of work on it and could do with finding it or repeat
several
hours of work.

Your help would be greatfully appreciated.

thanks in advance Ian

Have you tried re-opening the email and then re-opening the attachment?
In Outlook when I save an attachment I can go back to the original mail
and re-open it and my changes are there (unless I told Outlook to not
save the email when I closed it...).

Hope this helps!

 

[Dave]

The file is probably located in a folder somewhere in
C:\Users\(youraccount)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet
Files\

\AppData is normally hidden
\Temporary Internet Files is normally a hidden protected Operating System
file

You'll have to remove the checkmark (if they're hidden) in windows Explorer:
Organize - Folder & Search Options - View

 

[DDW]

What is your email client?

From: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817878


When you open file attachments that are considered safe, Outlook 2003
or Outlook 2007 puts these attachments in a subdirectory under the
Temporary Internet Files directory as an additional precaution. When
Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007 first tries to use a temporary file, it
examines the registry to determine whether the following value exists,
depending on your version of Outlook.

Outlook 2003
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security

Value Name: OutlookSecureTempFolder
Data Type: REG_SZ


Outlook 2007
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Security

Value Name: OutlookSecureTempFolder
Data Type: REG_SZ

If the value exists, and if the value contains a valid path, Outlook
2003 or Outlook 2007 uses that location for its temporary files.

If the registry value does not exist, or if it points to an invalid
location, Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007 creates a new subdirectory
under the Temporary Internet Files directory and puts the temporary
file in the new subdirectory. The name of the new subdirectory is
unknown, is randomly generated, and takes on the following form,
depending on your version of Outlook.

Outlook 2003
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\OLKxxx

In this example, username is the user name that is used by the person
who is currently logged on to the computer, and xxx is a randomly
generated sequence of letters and numbers.

Outlook 2007
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\xxxxxxxx

Note In Windows Vista, the temporary file resides in the following
location:

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.Outlook\xxxxxxxx

DDW

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hi,

I received an e-mail with a Word attachment. I opened it and worked on it,
then saved it. Where is it?

It's wherever you told it to put it when you were asked.

If you don't remember, do a search for it.

I realise that i should have done a 'saved as' then renamed it and saved
where I knew where it was, but i did not, I just pressed save and now I
cannot find it.

My view is very conservative, and is that you should not have opened
it. Such attachments are very risky (especially Word documents, which
can contain malicious macros). You often see advice not to open
attachments from people you don't know. I think that that's one of the
most dangerous pieces of advice you see around, because it implies
that it's safe to do the opposite--open attachments from friends and
relatives. But many viruses spread by sending themselves to everyone
in the infected party's address book, so attachments received from
friends are perhaps the *most* risky to open.

Even if the attachment legitimately comes from a friend, it can
contain a virus. I'm not suggesting that a friend is likely to send
you a virus on purpose, but if the friend is infected without
realizing it, any attachment he sends you is likely to also be
infected.

 

[Alias]

It's wherever you told it to put it when you were asked.

If you don't remember, do a search for it.




My view is very conservative, and is that you should not have opened
it. Such attachments are very risky (especially Word documents, which
can contain malicious macros). You often see advice not to open
attachments from people you don't know. I think that that's one of the
most dangerous pieces of advice you see around, because it implies
that it's safe to do the opposite--open attachments from friends and
relatives. But many viruses spread by sending themselves to everyone
in the infected party's address book, so attachments received from
friends are perhaps the *most* risky to open.

Even if the attachment legitimately comes from a friend, it can
contain a virus. I'm not suggesting that a friend is likely to send
you a virus on purpose, but if the friend is infected without
realizing it, any attachment he sends you is likely to also be
infected.

And there are two solutions:

1. Save it to disk and run the AV on it before opening it.

2. Use Ubuntu and not worry about this kind of crap. www.ubuntu.com

Alias

 

[DDW]

It's wherever you told it to put it when you were asked.

If you don't remember, do a search for it.




My view is very conservative, and is that you should not have opened
it. Such attachments are very risky (especially Word documents, which
can contain malicious macros). You often see advice not to open
attachments from people you don't know. I think that that's one of the
most dangerous pieces of advice you see around, because it implies
that it's safe to do the opposite--open attachments from friends and
relatives. But many viruses spread by sending themselves to everyone
in the infected party's address book, so attachments received from
friends are perhaps the *most* risky to open.

Even if the attachment legitimately comes from a friend, it can
contain a virus. I'm not suggesting that a friend is likely to send
you a virus on purpose, but if the friend is infected without
realizing it, any attachment he sends you is likely to also be
infected.

You probably wear a tin-foil beanie to keep people from reading your
mind.

WTF good is it to have an a/v and a couple of malware programs running
if you never give them a chance to do what they're supposed to do?

DDW

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

You probably wear a tin-foil beanie to keep people from reading your
mind.

WTF good is it to have an a/v and a couple of malware programs running
if you never give them a chance to do what they're supposed to do?

What they are supposed to do and what they are able to do are never
exactly the same thing. None of these programs is perfect, and none of
these programs can ever be updated to reflect the new malware that
started moments ago.

Using software to help protect you is good. Relying entirely on
software is foolhardy.

 

[Peter Foldes]

I just re-read your post again. If you did not do it as Save As then you are up the creek. In other words plain out of luck and what you saved is somewhere in a lost black hole

 

[DDW]

What they are supposed to do and what they are able to do are never
exactly the same thing. None of these programs is perfect, and none of
these programs can ever be updated to reflect the new malware that
started moments ago.

Using software to help protect you is good. Relying entirely on
software is foolhardy.

I am a very experienced user who practices "safe hex" and who has
proper software protection - I even PAY for my a/v protection (Avira)
- but I will not go so far as to get paranoid about opening a .DOC
file, or even a .JPG just because there is a POSSIBILITY that it might
contain a worm.

PUH-LEEZ!

DDW