Re: Help My Grandad!!
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Date: 10/11/04
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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 06:35:01 -0700
Thank you both very much for your replies.
Basically he had been hitting ctrl+S quite often and
indeed he would have done this shortly before he erased
everything.
If it is possible, as you were saying, that I could
access one of these previous saves then that would be
ideal. However if Word does overwrite any previous trace
of the file when you save over it then I fear he is
stuffed :(
But it is this that I need to know.
>-----Original Message-----
>redi_knight wrote:
>
>> My poor grandfather has an enourmous problem. He has
been
>> writing his memoirs of World War 2 on the laptop I
gave
>> him and was upto about 50 pages when disaster strikes.
He
>> deletes all his work and is left with 3 words
>>
>> He phoned me up in a panic and unfortunately he had
>> already closed the document and pressed save!!! (so it
is
>> saved as just the 3 words and not the 60,000 or so he
has
>> written!!!
>>
>> (To you and me it is obvious what he should have done,
>> but he is 81 and I think it is remarkable he even
knows
>> how to turn a PC on, go into word, write and save his
>> work)
>>
>> I havn't yet seen the PC but fear for the worst.
>>
>> We do have a fairly recent copy saved but he has done
a
>> lot since I last backed it up for him!
>>
>> Is there any way that his latest work is recoverable?
>> Basically I would like to see a list of his recent
saves
>> for that document and be able to revert to one by
picking
>> the date and time.
>>
>> I am sure I have seen programs for this but can't
>> remember and would be ever so grateful for the help.
>>
>> I feel sooo sorry for the poor guy and he'll be really
>> upset if he can't get it back.
>>
>> Many, many thanks to anyone who offers some advice on
how
>> to get this work back
>
>I'll suppose your granddad opened word, closed it,
opened, closed it
>etc. Back in the old days, on Novell, they had a
program called
>Salvage. It saved my ass more than once. Basically,
when I saved the a
>file, it gets written to a new location and the previous
copy has a flag
>noting it is deleted. The deleted file becomes unused
disk space,
>available for new files to be written there. So Salvage
would pull up
>all of those deleted copies and I could recover them. I
once went in
>and Salvaged Test.Prg and had about 5 copies to select,
one went back a
>few months.
>
>You might want to Google on deleted files in
http://groups.google.com
>and simply look for deleted software.
>
>I doubt Word saves the file in the same location each
time. The thing
>is that you don't know if something will be
saved/overwritten in that
>same spot after the file has been deleted since that
space is now
>available for use. So you want to check on this as soon
as possible.
>
>You might want to find some of that undelete software
and if there is a
>contact, call them up and see if they've ever recovered
from a problem
>like you described.
>
>Now if Word was never closed, then I'd say you are SOL.
>
>I wouldn't know if your granddad is a fast typist. You
might consider
>getting him a voice recorder and a bunch of cassettes
for it and let him
>get his thoughts down via voice. THen let him give you
what he has
>spoken and transcribe them...as a gift...for his
legacy. I remember too
>there was voice recognition software...if they've
improved it that might
>be a nice gift for your granddad. Let him speak and let
the computer do
>the writing.
>
>.
>
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