I looked everywhere online and have FINALLY found the answer to retrieving your lost document EVEN if AutoRecovery did not save it. This is free with no external software needed, you just need to follow these quick couple steps. So If you did as everyone else said and found the folder 'Office 2008/09/11 AutoRecovery' and your file is still NOT there, that means it is being stored in your computers Temporary or '-Tmp-' folder. The '-Tmp-' folder is very hard to find, even if you have made hidden folders visible, so what you need to do is go to 'Applications'- 'Utilities'- 'Terminal' Once you are in the terminal copy this phrase: 'open $TMPDIR' and press ENTER. That will open your Temporary files folder where you will see another folder named 'Temporaryitems' Open up the 'Temporaryitems' folder and you will find your lost file, that even AutoRecovery could not find. However when you do find your file, make sure you open up the document with 'TextEdit' because a.tmp file will not work with Word. An example name of your lost document will be 'WordWorkfile D-57238.tmp' I spent hours on the internet looking for a solution and this is the only way I have actually been able to find the lost or unsaved file.

Learn how to recover unsaved Microsoft word document on Mac OS X EI caption, Yosemite and Mavericks. Solution 1: Look Auto Recovery folder Office 2016 autosaved files located in the following address. Can EaseUS Word recovery software recover unsaved Word document. Free hd audio player. Over the last few years, EaseUS data recovery software spares no efforts to help with Word file recovery, Excel file recovery, and PowerPoint file recovery. Free media player for mac os x. One of the largest file recoveries in demand can be basically divided into two scenarios.

I hope this helps and I can save everyone some extra hours of time. Many thanks, msw103!

I took your advice and paid the big bucks (worth it to me) for 'uFlysoft,' and it worked. I am most relieved, because I had DAYS of work into a highly technical report that must get published in a few weeks, and I thought it lost forever.

I lost it by reopening my MacBook Air late last night and closing a few Word docs just to get them out of the way. I was presented with a message from Word asking if I want to 'revert to the save document,' and I selected 'OK,' which was a BIG mistake. All I had left was the name of the doc, but not one scrap of my new work. I tell this story as a cautionary tale. Good luck to you and all readers here. Here is the link again for anyone as desperate as I was.

I looked everywhere online and have FINALLY found the answer to retrieving your lost document EVEN if AutoRecovery did not save it. This is free with no external software needed, you just need to follow these quick couple steps. So If you did as everyone else said and found the folder 'Office 2008/09/11 AutoRecovery' and your file is still NOT there, that means it is being stored in your computers Temporary or '-Tmp-' folder.

The '-Tmp-' folder is very hard to find, even if you have made hidden folders visible, so what you need to do is go to 'Applications'- 'Utilities'- 'Terminal' Once you are in the terminal copy this phrase: 'open $TMPDIR' and press ENTER. That will open your Temporary files folder where you will see another folder named 'Temporaryitems' Open up the 'Temporaryitems' folder and you will find your lost file, that even AutoRecovery could not find. However when you do find your file, make sure you open up the document with 'TextEdit' because a.tmp file will not work with Word. An example name of your lost document will be 'WordWorkfile D-57238.tmp' I spent hours on the internet looking for a solution and this is the only way I have actually been able to find the lost or unsaved file.

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