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PowerPoint Presentation Reverted Back To Previously Saved Version
My wife is working on a project and lost several hours of work. Don't know
exactly what happened, but here's what I know, based on what she told me... ---She's been working on it for weeks. ---When she started Sunday morning it was 14 pages long. ---After working on/off throughout the day it was 22 pages long. ---She regularly saves her work. She won't even minimize it without saving. ---Late Sunday night she opened it and it was exactly as it was when she started that morning. Everything she did that day is gone. ---There was no crash, so no autorecovery. I searched all drives for PowerPoint files and could not find any other than the 14-page version. Also searched for templates and webfiles to see if she accidentally saved as one of those, but no luck. When she saves she simply hits the save button. AutoSave is set for every 10 minutes but can't find any files. Any help greatly appreciated. -- CR |
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PowerPoint Presentation Reverted Back To Previously Saved Version
The autosave files I believe are removed once you save and exit PowerPoint you might think about using Shyam's Sequential Save addin which is available here. http://skp.mvps.org/seqsave.htm
-- Michael Koerner MS MVP - PowerPoint "CR" wrote in message news My wife is working on a project and lost several hours of work. Don't know exactly what happened, but here's what I know, based on what she told me... ---She's been working on it for weeks. ---When she started Sunday morning it was 14 pages long. ---After working on/off throughout the day it was 22 pages long. ---She regularly saves her work. She won't even minimize it without saving. ---Late Sunday night she opened it and it was exactly as it was when she started that morning. Everything she did that day is gone. ---There was no crash, so no autorecovery. I searched all drives for PowerPoint files and could not find any other than the 14-page version. Also searched for templates and webfiles to see if she accidentally saved as one of those, but no luck. When she saves she simply hits the save button. AutoSave is set for every 10 minutes but can't find any files. Any help greatly appreciated. -- CR |
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PowerPoint Presentation Reverted Back To Previously Saved Version
Only thing I can think to try is using "restore previous version," which is
sometimes available if you're working on Vista. (This is definitely not common behavior.) Oh, is there anything in the TEMP folder? If so, she could try Insert | Slides | From File or she could try renaming the ~.TMP file with a PPT extension and see if that will open or allow her to Insert | Slides from.... -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx "CR" wrote in message news My wife is working on a project and lost several hours of work. Don't know exactly what happened, but here's what I know, based on what she told me... ---She's been working on it for weeks. ---When she started Sunday morning it was 14 pages long. ---After working on/off throughout the day it was 22 pages long. ---She regularly saves her work. She won't even minimize it without saving. ---Late Sunday night she opened it and it was exactly as it was when she started that morning. Everything she did that day is gone. ---There was no crash, so no autorecovery. I searched all drives for PowerPoint files and could not find any other than the 14-page version. Also searched for templates and webfiles to see if she accidentally saved as one of those, but no luck. When she saves she simply hits the save button. AutoSave is set for every 10 minutes but can't find any files. Any help greatly appreciated. -- CR |
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Possible solution.
i had the same bizarre issue yesterday and today. Unfortunately the issue was happening to my boss and he wasn't very happy!
What was happening was: He would open a .PPS from a network share, work on it for a while then close it. What he didn't know was that after he closed the application powerpnt.exe was still active in the processes list AND still had his file open. Due to some bizarre turn of events when he opened the file again to work on it some more; the file was read only but it wasn't showing the "this file is read-only" dialogue upon opening it (possibly due to the process still running?). He would work on his document, then "save" it, all seemed fine, he would close and open the document again and it would be back to the previous version!! The new file was being saved somewhere (still havn't found where!) as soon as he closed it, then all he would see was the original read-only copy still sitting there. Either way i re-installed office 2007 and applied service pack 2, all the updates available and now it doesn't happen anymore. I'm glad only one person has experienced this so far, i couldnt cope with 200+ people shouting that they have lost work.. Echo S wrote: Only thing I can think to try is using "restore previous version," which is 05-May-08 Only thing I can think to try is using "restore previous version," which is sometimes available if you're working on Vista. (This is definitely not common behavior.) Oh, is there anything in the TEMP folder? If so, she could try Insert | Slides | From File or she could try renaming the ~.TMP file with a PPT extension and see if that will open or allow her to Insert | Slides from.... -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx "CR" wrote in message news Previous Posts In This Thread: On Monday, May 05, 2008 9:49 AM C wrote: PowerPoint Presentation Reverted Back To Previously Saved Version My wife is working on a project and lost several hours of work. Don't know exactly what happened, but here's what I know, based on what she told me... ---She's been working on it for weeks. ---When she started Sunday morning it was 14 pages long. ---After working on/off throughout the day it was 22 pages long. ---She regularly saves her work. She won't even minimize it without saving. ---Late Sunday night she opened it and it was exactly as it was when she started that morning. Everything she did that day is gone. ---There was no crash, so no autorecovery. I searched all drives for PowerPoint files and could not find any other than the 14-page version. Also searched for templates and webfiles to see if she accidentally saved as one of those, but no luck. When she saves she simply hits the save button. AutoSave is set for every 10 minutes but can't find any files. Any help greatly appreciated. -- CR On Monday, May 05, 2008 10:09 AM Michael Koerner wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.------=_NextPart_000_0008_01C8AE98. 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If so, she could try Insert | Slides | From File or she could try renaming the ~.TMP file with a PPT extension and see if that will open or allow her to Insert | Slides from.... -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx "CR" wrote in message news Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice How to Annotate Images from a database in a web page http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...images-fr.aspx |
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