Retrieve, Recover, Restore

[NaSTy]

Ok this is the situation --> One of my Co-workers has spent the last 2hrs typing up
a shipping Schedule only to exit word without saving it
(even when she was prompted to save changes she clicked NO!)
My question is ---> Is there any way of recovering this lost work?
Does windows make some kind of tmp file that has some information that can be retrieved?
Cause I know when I use windows washer it cleans out MS Office tracks & document history.

Any help is much Appreciated

[CHE]

Damn,

I guess it's too late to help with this one. Oh well.

In the case you describe, I forget if and where Office stores documents that have been closed without saving. For that reason, I would run a search (find, whatever) on the entire drive for documents of ALL filetypes containing text that is somewhat unique to the document under preperation, perhaps a name on the schedule or maybe just the date in October 19, 2002 format.

Moving forward, I think Office has auto-backup options and you may want to consider using these options.

[CHE]

Actually, I overlooked a much simpler solution. Make her work late two hours to make up the work and dock her pay two hours for being a noob

[NaSTy]

lol
Option 2 seems the go
I'll put it to her -->wish me luck

[CHE]

Wear a cup just in case...

[NaSTy]

I didn't take your advice
but I ended up wearing a cup in the end (of hot coffee that is)
Not really. She (Jessica) had a good laugh at what you had to say.

[Iceman]

I recon you could be able to retrieve most of the file which was deletes. All Word docments have a temp file which is used for autosave etc when the doument is open (it usuall looks lie ~filename.tmp or something lie that). Thsi file would have been deleted when the Word file was closed but you can get a program like Drive Rescue (an undelete program) and get the file back!!

Good Luck.

[tenzomonk]

sorry i'm late... damn, i think i could have saved the file for you. happens again, PM me...

[NaSTy]

Tenz0 do share
Or are you playin wit me
Would be good to know for future reference

I found this little restore program that... well that restores deleted files
(even if deleted while holding the shift key)

I tried it with word documents. You can restores the temp file that windows creates when you have documents open - But the temp file only contains certain information.
If you want just click here

[tenzomonk]

nasty.... not playing at all. i have a couple of different progs used to restore ANYTHING that was on the drive at one point (well, unless of course the drive is completely full, and the data has been overwritten). i'll send ya a PM here in a minute.

I suggest you use DataRecoveryWizard to recover your data.
The software provides very useful functions for data recovery:
DeleteRecovery, FormatRecovery, AdvancedRecovery, RawRecovery.

This program is an efficient disk recovery software providing
you a complete answer to data loss.

First thing I recommend you download the demo version of
DataRecoveryWizard. (http://www.easeus.com/download.htm)

Run the program and select the recovery mode "DeletedRecovery",
or "FormatRecovery", or "AdvancedRecovery".

See more: http://www.easeus.com
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywi...eted-files.htm
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywi...-partition.htm
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywi...-partition.htm
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywi...ked-drives.htm
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywi...lost-files.htm
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywi...ned-drives.htm
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywi...hkdsk-disk.htm
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywi...image-data.htm
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywi...ypted-data.htm