Re: Lost Word files?

The ~$lename.doc file is the "owner" file (see “Description of how Word
creates temporary files” at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632). It
won't help you at all; it just locks the document for editing by any other
user. If you see ~$xxxwrl.tmp files, then they may be useful, as they are
created every time you save (but if you didn't save, you won't have any).

I have Windows (2000--it may be different in XP) set to notify, and it tells
me when updates are available. I can then choose to download them (as in
fact I did yesterday), and then it tells me again when they're ready to be
installed (I haven't gotten this notification yet--haven't yet figured out
why it takes longer to download updates over DSL, which is always on then it
did during the few unused cycles of dialup). In both cases, I don't get the
notice till I click on the icon in the Systray.

Once I've been notified that they're ready to install, I can choose not to
install them, and I think there's a Later button that perhaps delays till
the next day, but I'm not sure about that. My experience with the Later
button wrt restarting after the install is that it keeps prompting again
every few minutes until you're ready to throw in the towel. I usually tell
it Later and then restart manually because my earlier experience with
saying, "Yes, restart my computer now" was that it went off into
Neverneverland and required a hard shutdown (turning off the power button)
to get out of the loop.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Dean" <whooshbopbang4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ouch, but thank you. I thought that windows usually warned me that it was
going to install the updates, but I guess, if you're not there to tell it
to
wait, sooner or later, it goes forward. Is it Ok to let it automatically
download them but not install them without permission - or does it still
install them, in that mode, if you are away from your computer too long?

What are these little hushed tilde (~filename.doc) things that show up on
a
search, with more recent dates/times? Are they of any use?

Thanks!
Dean

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I fear you have misunderstood the purpose of "background" saves. This
setting is relevant only when you save manually. See
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/AutomaticSave.htm.

You have learned the folly of leaving an unsaved document open
unattended.
If your computer is set to allow entirely automatic updates (Control
Panel
|
Automatic Updates), you have given Windows permission to shut down any
running programs (without saving open files) in order to restart the
computer when necessary after installing updates. If you have any
control
over the process, you would be wise to set Automatic Updates to notify
instead; this gives you control of the process: you can decide when (or
whether) to download the updates, when (or whether) to install them, and
when to restart the computer after installing.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"Dean" <whooshbopbang4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Forgive me once more, as I have posted this on other newsgroups that
have
no
activity whatsoever since earlier yesterday, so it looks like this is
the
place to be seen! Even though my computer may be overloaded and should
be
rebooted, I am afraid to shut it down, lest I lose what temporary
background-save fragments I need to recover what I seem to have lost -
that
is why I have this sense of urgency. Here is what I posted elsewhere
yesterday, please help! :

I was working on a few MS Word documents today, documents that I update
daily and, I took a couple of hours off and when I came back, MS Word
was
closed and, when I reopened Word, the documents had none of the changes
I
had made today.

My settings are to allow "background saves" and to do autorecover every
10
minutes. When, I did a search for Word docs modified in the last day,
my
files (which I update and resave daily) showed up, but none of them had
any
updates I've done in the last 24 hours in them, even though I think they
showed today's date (not sure on that). Some of the temporary hushed
files
(same name with a tilde in front) seem to show up, but if you open them
by
themselves, it's garbage. Now, I did the search again, 15 minutes
later,
and far fewer files show up.

I don't understand this. Can someone tell me the best way to integrate
whatever background saved files I have, in order to try to resurrect
what
I
did today?

Thanks so much, Dean




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