OMG *relieved and ready to collapse*

[samantilles]

I HAVE MY DOCUMENT BACK!!!  Early on, my coworker and I downloaded a trial version of DiskInternals Word Recovery Software which took approximately five and a half hours to complete its scan of the hard drive.  Meanwhile I then spent the next three and a half hours manually searching for auto-recover documents, temporary documents and anything else

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[zats_clear]

thank GOD!

[samantilles]

I'd even thank every false god and demi-diety I can think of if it actually would have helped... As it was I was a little annoyed last night when I sent myself a copy of the file and all I got was the unedited back... I worried all last night hoping that I didn't close down or lose the work I had done yesterday, and I was happily relieved when I found the file still open this morning. Which was part of the reason I was doubly furious this afternoon... I had already gone through a test run of the first half of the file... and to complete it and then lose it... it was harsh...

[aurora_novarum]

Congrats! I'm glad it all worked out for you. I had no advice to give unfortunately, but yay computer recovery program mojo! And sam-smarts.

[samantilles]

I am sooo thankful I'm tech savvy, because if something like this would have happened to my mother or other history-major friends, they wouldn't have known where to start, and if they even found the program that helped me out, they would inevitably have forked out the 80 buckeroos... and I can live almost two weeks on 80 bucks for food... *i is very cheap person--i only shell out for tech toys, books and DVD's...

[sg_betty]

Whew!! Congratulations! It's very worrying that your saves didn't work. I'm really wondering why...

[samantilles]

Once again, it is my computer telling me how much it hates me. I've got a really important work document I've got to create this week... I'm taking no chances and backing everything up on google documents again... I thought we finally knicked the problem from last month... there is nothing I would like more but to take this computer up to the top floor of our building, magnetize the hard drive and toss it out the window, conveniently hitting that annoying Ford SUV that blantantly double parks and blocks my parking spot if he gets to the office before I do and who had the gall to state that his car was too big to go further into the parking garage, which is a total joke considering the lowest clearance is the actual entrance to the garage... *was annoyed that I had to crawl in my passenger side of car to get home* I'm thinking I will also start bringing my Mac powerbook to work again daily...

[sg_betty]

Maybe saving to a USB key would be a good idea...

[samantilles]

Last month we had problems actually saving the documents... when we saved and reopened the documents they came back garbled in ascii code, so we literally had to copy/paste everything online to save it as a google doc... I'm thinking somehow one of the master windows shared files is corrupted, which means that no matter how many times we reinstall office, we're bound to have a corrupt install. My other option to save the document is to open up notepad, c/p, and then save as .rtf. But fortunately google docs keeps our formatting (which is required for our contracts...)