I’m sitting here typing out some stuff in Microsoft Word (Word 2003, running on Visa) when Word stops working. I get the circular blue spinning mouse cursor, and the Word window did this fade-to-white thing.
I need to get at all that stuff I just typed somehow. Can anyone think of any way I might be able to read off the text I’ve just typed, even though I can no longer manipulate the document from within word itself?
Is there some location on disk that Word keeps an ongoing temporary file reflecting the current state of the document or something?
When I open a .doc file attached to an email in Internet Explorer, without saving that .doc file at the same time, where does it copy the file to on the disk, if anywhere?
The only thing I know of that will save you on the first item is if you had autosave turned on.
If Vista saves things you open through IE the way XP does, it’s in your Temporary Internet Files folder, which by default is somewhere in your \Documents and Settings\username\ folder.
I just tried opening a file through my email in another instance of Word, to see where it was saving to. It’s in
users\jake-kris.pc\appdata\local\microsoft\windows emporary internet files[some random sequence of letters].
But when I try to navigate to that location on the drive through Windows Explorer, there is no “temporary internet files” folder listed under the “windows” folder.
And when I try to use the explorer window in Word that pops up when I hit “save as” in the second instance of Word to search around the area for the temporary file corresponding to what was open in the first (now frozen) instance, it doesn’t seem to be anywhere.
When I closed out everything and then opened up Word again, the “auto-recover” function kicked in. Good!
But the file is apparently irrecoverably corrupted. The auto-recovered file freezes up Word every time, before I get a chance to copy/paste anything. Bad!
Found the autorecover file, renamed it to .txt, opened it, copied out the text to a new word file, and everything now seems okay. Have to reformat (everything I needed to get back consisted in a set of footnotes I was adding to someone else’s work, so inserting it back in as footnotes will be a hassle, but much more doable than going back over everything again!).
