Restoring Unsaved Files

Most of us have done it at some time or another - somehow managed to shut down, say, a Word document (still called doc1) without saving it, when you had intended to. Bang. There's an hour or more's work gone. It's not in the recycle bin because you didn't actually delete it - you just didn't save it!

But it happens so rarely that it hardly seems worth spending real money to buy a utility that can find such stuff on your drive. Especially if it's only an hour's work (unless you are a lawyer, of course!)

Can anyone recommend a good, free app which provides chance to restore such unsaved files?
David

 

Additionally many applications have an auto recover but that depends on the application silently doing an Auto Save if you like. Other than that as Steve say's there's nothing to recover.

 

Thanks guys - I was confusing it with a crash, when I can normally get something back from MSWord. Funny thing is - it's Word 2000 and it is not behaving in quite the way it should do under Vista - or, at least it is not behaving in quite the way it did under XP. The autosave function seems not to be producing any documents I can find anywhere on my machine. And having two separate documents open at the same time, seems to risk suddenly losing one of them, if you close the other. I haven't got the time to investigate this further right now, since I'm in the process of urgently reconstructing a document for the second time!! I won't close anything at all until I have finished. Grrr. I wonder if anyone else has been having similar problems with ancient versions of Word in Vista, or if, after over 20 years of producing documents on computers, I've suddenly started making a brand new kind of mistake? Don't answer that...

 

Hi David, I have use Recuva it does the job for me. Here is the link, hope this helps.
Phil
http://www.piriform.com/

 

Thanks TheKid - I've been away. But the problem, as was helpfully pointed out above, is that there was nothing to recover, since nothing had been saved, even as a tmp file. I do have Recuva now, however, and I agree with you, a useful program.
David