Word 2003 wiped my document!

[Shane Collins]

Last night I spent 8 hours typing a story that I had my heart set on for quite some time. I was very proud of myself and how everything was going. Well, after I got done with half of it I saved my document. I went to go open it this morning and every single character in the document has been turned into a space. I am not very thrilled with this. I have Google Searched after Google Search trying to find ways to:

1: Recover the document
2: Find the Windows 7 version of the TEMP folder so I can recover my lost time and effort
3: Just get my document back.

Does anyone have any clue that could help me with anything besides type it again?

Thanks.

 

[surfasb]

Never heard of that happening. If it isn't in the autosave directory, then you are kind of screwed. I believe Word2003 uses the the %temp% variable for it's temp folder if you haven't turned on autosave.

By default, the %temp% folder is %userprofile%\appdata\local\temp.

 

[Shane Collins]

Okay, well it wasn't in any temp folder, though I made sure the autobackup thing was on. Anyway, I copied the document to a flash drive and put it on my girlfriend's Ubuntu computer and opened it with OpenOffice, now it only shows # signs. The document's gotta be there, because it's detecting that much.

 

[ccatlett1984]

The file is corrupt, you can try a word document recovery tool.
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MS Word Document Recovery Software and Undelete utility (not freeware, but the trial will let you see if the data is still there)

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[Shane Collins]

Thanks for your help, guys. According to all the recovery programs my document is far too corrupted to recover. It's okay. I just hope I'll be able to remember the gist of it all. I'm only upset because Windows/Word gave me absolutely no problems at all last night. But I want to thank you for your help anyway. Have a great day.