Please! I really need some help!

[Nintendohnut]

I don't know if there is anything I can do about this, but I'll explain anyway:

 

I'm on my mac, on word, writing my essay for uni. Then I highlight all the text apart from the title and click on word count. It comes up and i close it. The writing remains highlighted. I cannot scroll up or down, I cannot click anything. I try to minimize it then maximize it but that doesnt help. So i click a few times, that does nothing. I try to type stuff, and that doesnt do anything. SO I click save and it saves, then I close it and try to open it again.

 

When I open it again, the whole essay is deleted. The only things that are left are the title, and about five letters that i pressed earlier when i was just trying to type things when it froze.

 

I SAVED OVER MY GODDAM ESSAY WITH 5 RANDOM LETTERS! Is there anything I can do? I've tried the obvious thing, obviously I can't undo it, and I can't revert to another saved document cause i saved the stupid fucking letters.

 

I feel so stupid, if I hadn't been so quick to do what I did I would be fine. I just need to know - is there no way to get it back at all? (There aren't any autosaved copies either, I tried that too )

 

I really hope someone can help or it looks like I'm writing it again from scratch :(

[Ten10]

I would say your pretty screwed, unless you could some how be saved by the auto recovery utility which I think might not be possible. If you could some how induce a power loss in your mac so that it doesn't save any more info you might have it back when you next open Microsoft work (not the actual document)

 

Not to say that this will 100% save you.

[Nintendohnut]

No i tried the power loss thing in the hope that may happen but it didnt. I don't think there's anything I can do, its just so fucking annoying!

[Sanchez]

If it's Word 2007 there should be an easy way to recover it.

[Shino]

Try this: http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B827099&x=18&y=15

[Ten10]

Hey there its me again. Did some searching and maybe you should try this out.

 

Well, mostly, anyway. What we did was basically combine gramcracker and nickerbocker's points together. The actual book file itself was useless, and there weren't any relevant temporary file still on disk. BUT --- there were were two relevant temporary files that had been deleted. We undeleted those using FreeUndelete that my dad installed onto a USB drive from his computer. One of them contained about the last two-thirds of the book as of August 30, and my neighbor says that that the first third probably hasn't changed much since the April 30th version.

 

Then I remembered your using a mac. and so I would recommend this but don't use your mac to download it.

Ok try this software, it says it lets you recover for free, but I can' test it out for you. (No Mac :P)

 

Osu!

I'll try and find some free software.

 

Free and works on Mac too

Tesk Disk

[Nintendohnut]

If it's Word 2007 there should be an easy way to recover it.

 

Try this: http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B827099&x=18&y=15

 

Thanks so much for looking guys, but it's not 07 cause it's on mac and although that page looks like it would really have the answer on it, it's only for windows! :( Thanks so much anyway:bowdown:

 

And Ten10 I'll try those out but I'm not sure they will work

 

The real problem is that I haven't saved the document and then accidentally deleted the document, it's that I wrote all the words, then deleted the words and saved over the original file. Basically I think I'm screwed *sigh*

 

Guys, thanks so so much for your help, Ten10 I'll try that program, thank you for looking for it. Seriously such a great community on here, hugs all round!

 

Thanks again

[Shino]

Thanks so much for looking guys, but it's not 07 cause it's on mac and although that page looks like it would really have the answer on it, it's only for windows! :( Thanks so much anyway:bowdown:

 

And Ten10 I'll try those out but I'm not sure they will work

 

The real problem is that I haven't saved the document and then accidentally deleted the document, it's that I wrote all the words, then deleted the words and saved over the original file. Basically I think I'm screwed *sigh*

 

Guys, thanks so so much for your help, Ten10 I'll try that program, thank you for looking for it. Seriously such a great community on here, hugs all round!

 

Thanks again

 

The idea of that link is that if you have the auto-recovery function turned on in Word, there's a possibility he has the back up version of that file from 10 minutes earlier. Maybe you could use the equivalent of windows search on mac?

[Nintendohnut]

The idea of that link is that if you have the auto-recovery function turned on in Word, there's a possibility he has the back up version of that file from 10 minutes earlier. Maybe you could use the equivalent of windows search on mac?

 

I hadn't thought of that, thanks for pointing it out or I would have missed it!

 

Edit: Just tried it, and there weren't any backups Just the file itself, which is the one with only the title in.

[Cube]

Thanks so much for looking guys, but it's not 07 cause it's on mac

 

Do you have Office 04 (i.e. Mac version of Office 03) or Office 08 (Mac version of Office 07)? Office 08 should have very similar features to 07.

 

The real problem is that I haven't saved the document and then accidentally deleted the document, it's that I wrote all the words, then deleted the words and saved over the original file. Basically I think I'm screwed *sigh*

 

I'd recommend progressive saving (each time you save don't save over, save as a different file numbered so you know which is the latest). Not enough people save like that (You can delete all the prior versions when you're sure they aren't needed).