Lost Attachment

I opened up an email with a word ducument. I proceeded to type for 2 hours
into the word document. When I was done I X out and hit yes to save. When I
open the e-mail back up what I typed for 2 hours is gone. Is there anyway to
retrieve what I typed in? Please help me I do not want to have to type again!!

Tony wrote:
I opened up an email with a word ducument. I proceeded to type for 2 hours
into the word document. When I was done I X out and hit yes to save. When I
open the e-mail back up what I typed for 2 hours is gone. Is there anyway to
retrieve what I typed in? Please help me I do not want to have to type again!!

You can't save to an attachment. It's somewhere on your hard drive. Try
My Documents for starters or search for the file.

Alias

I tried that and it is nowhere to be found

"Alias" wrote:

Tony wrote:
I opened up an email with a word ducument. I proceeded to type for 2 hours
into the word document. When I was done I X out and hit yes to save. When I
open the e-mail back up what I typed for 2 hours is gone. Is there anyway to
retrieve what I typed in? Please help me I do not want to have to type again!!

You can't save to an attachment. It's somewhere on your hard drive. Try
My Documents for starters or search for the file.

Alias

You have learned an expensive lesson.
If you want to alter an attachment, save the attachment to the hard drive
and alter the saved attachment.
You should save your document as you work.
OE puts opened attachments in Temporary Internet Files.
--
Ronald Sommer

"Tony" wrote in message
...
:I opened up an email with a word ducument. I proceeded to type for 2 hours
: into the word document. When I was done I X out and hit yes to save. When
I
: open the e-mail back up what I typed for 2 hours is gone. Is there anyway
to
: retrieve what I typed in? Please help me I do not want to have to type
again!!

Hi Tony,

You might try duplicating the same procedure, open up the email with word
document, type a few words, X out and hit yes to save. Does it provide info
as to where it will be saved? Does it ask to overwrite a existing file? If
the latter is true, then suspect your lost file is somewhere on your hard
drive.

Ken

"Tony" wrote in message
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| I tried that and it is nowhere to be found
|
| "Alias" wrote:
|
| Tony wrote:
| I opened up an email with a word ducument. I proceeded to type for 2
hours
| into the word document. When I was done I X out and hit yes to save.
When I
| open the e-mail back up what I typed for 2 hours is gone. Is there
anyway to
| retrieve what I typed in? Please help me I do not want to have to type
again!!
|
| You can't save to an attachment. It's somewhere on your hard drive. Try
| My Documents for starters or search for the file.
|
| Alias
|

The updated document was saved to the IE Temporary Internet Files (TIF).
That's where OE saves a temporary copy of attachments when you open them
from within OE. OE then will try to delete the file in the TIF when you
move to another OE message.

You cannot update an attachment within a OE message. You need to save
the attachment and then open it, or if you open it from within OE, you
need to use the File, Save As option in the application to save the
updates to some place other than the TIF.

There is slight chance that the updated attachment is still in the TIF.
For that to be the case, you must have closed the OE message Before you
lasted saved the updates.

The attachment, if it is still there, will Not show if you look at the
TIF from IE or the Windows Explorer. You must open a Command Prompt
window and use "DOS" commands to locate and copy the file elsewhere. If
you start at the folder above the TIF and use the command
DIR /A /S *.DOC
it will indicate if the file is still there. You'll need to use a COPY
command to copy the file elsewhere. This will be cumbersome because of
the peculiar folder names.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Tony" wrote in message
...
I opened up an email with a word ducument. I proceeded to type for 2
hours
into the word document. When I was done I X out and hit yes to save.
When I
open the e-mail back up what I typed for 2 hours is gone. Is there
anyway to
retrieve what I typed in? Please help me I do not want to have to type
again!!