"Michael Santovec" wrote:

The updated document was saved to the IE Temporary Internet Files (TIF).
That's where OE saves a temporary copy of attachments when you open them
from within OE. OE then will try to delete the file in the TIF when you
move to another OE message.

You cannot update an attachment within a OE message. You need to save
the attachment and then open it, or if you open it from within OE, you
need to use the File, Save As option in the application to save the
updates to some place other than the TIF.

There is slight chance that the updated attachment is still in the TIF.
For that to be the case, you must have closed the OE message Before you
last saved the updates.

Any attachments, if they are still there, will Not show if you look at
the TIF from IE or the Windows Explorer normally. You will be able to
see them if you use Start, Run and enter the command

%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\
or
C:\Documents and Settings\XXXX\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\

where XXXX is the Windows user. This assumes that you have not moved
the TIF. You can check the actual location by looking in IE at Tools,
Internet Options, General, Temporary Internet Files, Settings. The
\Content.IE5\ at the end is import or else you won't be able to see all
the files. You should see 4 folders with names such as A1B2C3D4.
You'll need to look in each folder for the missing files. The Search
function won't work.

An alternate access method is to open a Command Prompt window and use
"DOS" commands to locate and copy the file elsewhere. If you start at
the folder above the TIF and use the command
DIR /A /S *.PPS
it will indicate if the file is still there. You'll need to use a COPY
command to copy the file elsewhere. This will be cumbersome because of
the peculiar folder names.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"Bobm0001" wrote in message
...
I have OE 6 and today made several changes to a PowerPoint attachment,
saving
it periodically. When I tried to resend the attached document with
the
changes, it reverted back to the original document. Is there any way
I can
retrieve the document with the changes?



Thank you, Michael, your advice on using DOS saved the day for me! The
search for the file using the other methods did not work, but using the DOS
command, I found my document and was able to copy it to another directory. It
actually was not difficult, I opened another DOS window once I located my
file and was easily able to copy the director that contained it.