Go get coffee and change your shorts too as the search will take several minutes to search your whole computer. In the search field, you want to search for *.ASD (exactly as you see it with the asterisk) as that will search for any AutoRecovered file. In the the search prompts on the left, you want to search for All Files or Folders. After about 30 minutes of panicky googling and a change of underwear, I found how to recover your AutoRecover file….if that makes sense. The AutoRecover file had gone into the abyss as I botched my lifeline to my original document. Since I closed the AutoRecover file, I couldn’t retrieve it any longer. I thought I had salvaged my work but when I re-opened the file, all my changes were gone and I was left with my two day old original version… NOOOO!!!! I clicked Yes…after thinking for a moment, Word and it said no changes were detected and then closed my AutoRecover file. Word asked if I wanted to merge changes with the original document…. Since I hate multiple versions of the same doc, I thought I would just overwrite my original version with the autorecovered version. Most people should save it as a new file.
Hitting SAVE opens a window to save the AutoRecover version as a new file. The problem is Word gives you some pretty darn confusing options for what to do with the AutoRecover file and it can be pretty catastrophic. Clicking the AutoRecover version, you see your more recent changes and you breathe a sigh of relief. In the left hand pane, it shows you your original document you saved two days ago and then the AutoRecover version from 5 minutes before your laptop died. Not to fear, because because Word has an nifty AutoRecover feature that allows you see your changes since you last saved. Apparently I don’t hit save as often as I thought.)
(This just happened to where I lost about 2 days of work from a laptop dying. Let’s say you’ve been working on a word document and your laptop dies, computer auto restarts or computer somehow unexpectedly shuts down before you save your document before you saved. This is a tip I hope few have to use, but found it incredibly useful when you make a mistake with not saving and botching the AutoRecover bailout option.
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