Lost Word Document and cant find it!!! I saved it but it ISNT there!! If you opened and edited a Word file from an e-mail, then usually Word will place a copy of the file in a temporary folder on your hard drive. Steve_D Mac OS X Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Advanced Beginner: Join Date: Dec 2009. Posts: 52 A friend of mine at work.
I have been working on a document for two days now. I did not open it from an email or the internet.simply started out with a new document on Word.
I know I saved it because every time I wrote a good bit of info I would save it. Now I cannot find the document anywhere. I have tried to find it with finder but no luck. I have also went under New Templates in word and reviewed recent files, but it gives me none from yesterday and last night was the last time I worked on it and saved it. My computer is a macbook air and my word product is 2011. Please help!!
These days, MS Word documents are saved in an open XML-based DOCX format, which is standardized and has a definitive file signature which can be easily picked up by Deep Scan. Older MS Word document files were identified by.DOC extension, and are also supported by Disk Drill's Deep Scan binary reconstruction method. Alternatively, it's also smart to always check the items found by Quick Scan. Even though this Word document recovery algorithm locates less deleted files due to the way Mac OS X works, than the similar algorithms on Windows, it can still find multiple instances of recently deleted files. Anyway, Disk Drill, being a great free Word file recovery app on Mac, provides several methods sheltered under one central 'Recover' button, and in most cases it does the best job possible. Depending on where your lost Word documents were stored, you would be looking either at your system (local) Mac drive, or an external disk, or another location accessible to Disk Drill. Choose the partition where your lost files were, and click the 'Recover' button in Disk Drill.
Advanced users may experiment by tuning up the recovery options a bit. You may also navigate to Disk Drill's Preferences and disable searching for any other file formats but Documents - DOC & DOCX (Microsoft Word Documents) for recovery.
This may shorten the time required for scanning.