Re: Over-written / lost presentation

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Did you email the presentation to anyone while you were working on it?

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<eairoldi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1112649244.144494.6610@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi all,
> I over-wrote my presentation (slides.ppt) when trying to compress it
> from the command line; I accidentally inverted the flags of the 'tar'
> command from a terminal window, like so:
> > tar -cvzf slides.ppt slides.tgz
>
> I am using os x/3.7 and powerpoint v.X. I remember there were a lot
> of auto-saves going on, while I was working on my slides. My problem
> is that I seem not to be able to find any of the powerpoint temporary
> files! I looked into /Library/Preferences and /System/... without any
> success.
>
> Could anyone please direct me towards a location where I can find
> remains of slides.ppt? I looked at
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=188898 and at other stuff on the FAQ
> (both MAC and XP) without finding any hint to that ...
>
> Regards
> Edo
>
> PS. Please, cc eairoldi@xxxxxxxxx in your reply!
>


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