My wife did a lot of work on a WP document that I sent her as an attachment,
but did not save it to the hard drive while doing so, or after she finished
(she was just hitting "save" while she was working on it). Now that she's
closed WP, is there any way we can locate the edited document? I've tried
going back to the message and re-opening the attachment, but it is in the
same state it was when I originally sent it to her - i.e., all her work has
been lost. And when I tried to find it by opening WP and using the File
List, it told me it couldn't locate that file.

When working on a Word Perfect document, you first have to click Save As and
dedicate a location for it to be saved. After that, clicking Save
occasionally, will save all new modifications, but not if Save As was never
implemented. When she closed WP, she should have seen a prompt, "Do you want
to save changes..........", which would have also have given her the chance
to Save As. AFAIK, she will have to start from scratch.

This actually is not an OE question, but a Corel (cnews.corel.com.), but I
believe you would get the same response there.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"jgpenner" wrote in message
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My wife did a lot of work on a WP document that I sent her as an
attachment,
but did not save it to the hard drive while doing so, or after she
finished
(she was just hitting "save" while she was working on it). Now that she's
closed WP, is there any way we can locate the edited document? I've tried
going back to the message and re-opening the attachment, but it is in the
same state it was when I originally sent it to her - i.e., all her work
has
been lost. And when I tried to find it by opening WP and using the File
List, it told me it couldn't locate that file.

Any attachment should be saved to the hard drive before making
modifications.
--
Ron Sommer

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
When working on a Word Perfect document, you first have to click Save As
and dedicate a location for it to be saved. After that, clicking Save
occasionally, will save all new modifications, but not if Save As was
never implemented. When she closed WP, she should have seen a prompt, "Do
you want to save changes..........", which would have also have given her
the chance to Save As. AFAIK, she will have to start from scratch.

This actually is not an OE question, but a Corel (cnews.corel.com.), but I
believe you would get the same response there.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"jgpenner" wrote in message
news
My wife did a lot of work on a WP document that I sent her as an
attachment,
but did not save it to the hard drive while doing so, or after she
finished
(she was just hitting "save" while she was working on it). Now that
she's
closed WP, is there any way we can locate the edited document? I've
tried
going back to the message and re-opening the attachment, but it is in the
same state it was when I originally sent it to her - i.e., all her work
has
been lost. And when I tried to find it by opening WP and using the File
List, it told me it couldn't locate that file.

"jgpenner" wrote in message
news
My wife did a lot of work on a WP document that I sent her as an attachment,
but did not save it to the hard drive while doing so, or after she finished
(she was just hitting "save" while she was working on it). Now that she's
closed WP, is there any way we can locate the edited document? I've tried
going back to the message and re-opening the attachment, but it is in the
same state it was when I originally sent it to her - i.e., all her work has
been lost. And when I tried to find it by opening WP and using the File
List, it told me it couldn't locate that file.


Does WP keep an undo file somewhere?
Provided she has used WP for anything else since then she could try that.
At least that way she would be forced to redo everything,
just from the last checkpoint.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
---

The edited document is likely lost.

I suspect that she opened the document from with OE. That saves a
temporary copy in the IE Temporary Internet Files (TIF). The word
processor was using that copy and saving to that copy. OE will delete
that copy when you close the message. The attachment in the original
message is never modified.

On the outside chance that OE didn't delete the TIF version, you would
need to search the TIF from a command line interface.

--

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


"jgpenner" wrote in message
news
My wife did a lot of work on a WP document that I sent her as an
attachment,
but did not save it to the hard drive while doing so, or after she
finished
(she was just hitting "save" while she was working on it). Now that
she's
closed WP, is there any way we can locate the edited document? I've
tried
going back to the message and re-opening the attachment, but it is in
the
same state it was when I originally sent it to her - i.e., all her
work has
been lost. And when I tried to find it by opening WP and using the
File
List, it told me it couldn't locate that file.

Even when OE puts things in the TIF they don't have identifiable filenames
that would match the attachment name. At least that's true for embedded
files.

steve

Damn Vista! They still haven't fixed the overtype bug.


"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
The edited document is likely lost.

I suspect that she opened the document from with OE. That saves a
temporary copy in the IE Temporary Internet Files (TIF). The word
processor was using that copy and saving to that copy. OE will delete
that copy when you close the message. The attachment in the original
message is never modified.

On the outside chance that OE didn't delete the TIF version, you would
need to search the TIF from a command line interface.

--

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


"jgpenner" wrote in message
news
My wife did a lot of work on a WP document that I sent her as an
attachment,
but did not save it to the hard drive while doing so, or after she
finished
(she was just hitting "save" while she was working on it). Now that
she's
closed WP, is there any way we can locate the edited document? I've
tried
going back to the message and re-opening the attachment, but it is in the
same state it was when I originally sent it to her - i.e., all her work
has
been lost. And when I tried to find it by opening WP and using the File
List, it told me it couldn't locate that file.