To find a desired "spot" in that continuum I have to search them all, instead of having useful, identifying filenames. From the illustration, those versions are distinguished by date and time, but not renamed-as can be done using the save-as function.
Does word for mac autosave plus#
Just one example, with "versions".Īs I understand it, if i have a document three years old, and have edited it on a number of occasions, it's gonna exist in its original form plus all the overtly-saved "versions" AND all the auto-saves (default: once per hour). Some or all of a missing document might be recovered.Sometimes we need protection from these improvements meant to help us. These utilities will check for deleted files that are still saved on the drive. If you strike out in all those places, try some data recovery software. There are several ‘TemporaryItems’ folders:Ĭheck all of them and open in Office any files saved there. Scroll down and look for TemporaryItems folders. It’s a hidden folder, the fastest way to reach it is via TerminalĪpplications | Utilities | Terminal then type the command TMP or T folderĪnother hiding place is Mac’s folder for temporary or TMP files.
They are standard Office documents that can be opened directly in Word, Excel or PowerPoint. The documents are prefixed with ‘AutoRecovery save of …’ Library/Containers//Data/Library/Preferences/AutoRecover Then drill down to the following folders for Word, Excel or PowerPoint: Open Finder the Go | Go to Folder … then type: The AutoRecover folders are where Office keeps autosaved documents. If those options don’t help, it’s time to dig into the Mac and see what’s hiding in obscure and hidden folders. OneDrive, Dropbox and other cloud storage have their own Recycle Bin or versioning features to save deleted documents or earlier versions of a document. If the document was saved to a cloud service, it’s worth checking the online storage. Unsaved Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents may be hiding in there. That opens a Finder window showing all the deleted files.Īlso look for a Trash/Bin folder called ‘Recovered Items’. Bin or TrashĪt risk of stating the obvious … have you check the Trash or Bin? Right-click on the Bin icon and choose Open. So it’s worth checking Time Machine backups to see if the document or file has been saved to the local snapshot. (Windows File History feature has a similar local cache when the external drive isn’t available). These backups are called local snapshots. When the backup drive isn’t available, Time Machine saves a hourly snapshot to your local drive and keeps that snapshot for 24 hours. Time Machine works all the time, it will backup every hour even if the backup drive isn’t connected. Maybe you think Time Machine won’t help because the backup drive isn’t connected? Not so fast. MacOS Time Machine is the obvious place to look. This article is also helpful if you’re trying to find and delete any files or documents that must be removed for privacy reasons. If you’ve lost or accidently deleted a Word for Mac document (or Excel or PowerPoint) there are various places to look for it some might not occur to you. Thanks for joining us! You'll get a welcome message in a few moments.
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