<p>I was working on two papers last night and i know i saved them and i cant find them now. Ive tried everything they just disapeared. I need help. Please help.</p>
<p>Did you do that thing where, because you don’t have a flash drive or something, you email a document to yourself and then download it onto your computer later on to work on it?</p>
<p>^ If you did what he said, which is emailing the document to yourself and then working on it there and saving, the file won’t be on your computer. This has happened to me a couple times.</p>
<p>yes i did do this. how do i get it back?</p>
<p>I’m afraid that I do not know how to recover a document that was lost that way. The only thing I can recommend is that you use Google to look up a document recovery program to see if there’s any trace of it left. I’ve never successfully found a document this way but you might have more luck. If that doesn’t work, the only other thing you can really do is recreate the document from scratch using the progress you already made from the email attachment.</p>
<p>Go to your downloaded files folder. The location will depend on the OS. If it’s not there, couldn’t you just re-download from the email?</p>
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<p>I think the issue is that he downloaded part of an assignment from the email, then added a lot more to it, then saved it, then turned off his computer. It might be in the temporary files folder but I don’t know if his computer erases that every night or not. The one in the attachment won’t be completed.</p>
<p>ok good news i found the document. I retraced my steps and found the document in some tempory folder thing. The bad news I can only get there from the save as menu so I cant open it only save over it (almost did that luckly i didnt) Anyone know how to get to windows 7’s temporary file save thing?</p>
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<p>Why can’t you retrace the same steps outside of the save as menu…? Try going to control panel, folder options, show hidden folders.</p>
<p>yup that worked thanks</p>