Tuesday, August 14, 2018

How To Recover Word Docs You Forgot to ‘Save’ on Your PC



In every respect be it report writing at work or a composition or a thesis for a class, MS Word is a handy tool, in spite of a strong rivalry from Google Docs. Though,  perfection is always a vague, and it is also true  for Windows PC. Even in Windows 10, the users are not completely free from screen death app crash or random bugs. Any time you may involve into a crash.


Turn On Auto Save

Saving files is always better than recovering. In case of MS Word for setting up  this  click on the File tab and go to Options and you will find a  Save menu and check "Save AutoRecover information " box and the minute box. Here  you can set minutes you require and the Word will save the file automatically.

Recovering a lost file

If you fail to find the file you need to recover it. The best option of recovery is to discover the backup files which have been saved in Word.  To do this  go to the last saved file folder via Word document window and search for Word Backup files (wbk).

Recovering from the temporary Auto Save files

In case you don’t find not a single backup files, then it is better for you to recover it out of provisional auto-saved files. These are saved either in

"C:\ Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Microsoft\Word"
                                                              “or”

                  "C:\ Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Temp"

A quick and  easy way to locate your auto save files is to utilize the Search in Explorer with the name ".asd"  that will reveal the provisional auto save files.


If you yet to manage the document that you searching for, you can follow the final powerful option. If none of the preceding techniques work, you need to use a data recovery tool. There are free recovery tools,  but they are not always reliable to restore the entire file as they are not updated version.

Above all, if your word documents are deleted, several options are there to recover it. You can also see before it is published and recovered.

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