Guest benjale Posted December 13, 2014 Report Share Posted December 13, 2014 I was working on a word 2010 document for hours the other day. I have my files in dropbox on my desktop. I have the autosave on for every 10 minutes. The document saved on Monday at 3, I worked on it all day Tuesday and then saved at 3. When I went to open the document on Wednesday, everything was gone. Even though the document was there (saying I saved it at 3 on tuesday) it was the Monday at 3 version. There is NO autosaves or deleted files of any sort, it is almost as if I never worked on it at all. Except that 3 other documents I had opened simultaneously all saved perfectly fine no problems (of course these are not the important document). I work for a university so I was on with their tech support and I called microsoft support, both of which had me checking .asd .tmp, etc. files and nothing can be found. I feel like i have to give up finding it at this point (unless anyone has had this happen and has ideas?!?). BUT...I want to know HOW this happened. Any time I have lost anything before it was a user error (forgot to save, pressed dont save, etc), this is a mystery to me. I just changed the autorecover to save directly into dropbox and not in the "roaming" appdata default file. But I am now worried it could it be an issue with dropbox? Does anyone have any suggestions for me?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Krause Posted December 25, 2014 Report Share Posted December 25, 2014 Doing an autosave into dropbox should give you protection as you can recover deleted files and see versions from there. That said, just be sure to save regularly (obviously)..... Sorry to hear you lost data Ben. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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