Microsoft word is eating my files!

[hlavine]

Ok, so maybe not, but I don't know where they are going!  First, I believe I am using Word 2007, but not sure how to check to make sure that that is correct....

Second, here is what happened.  I had a number of documents in a zip file, using Express Zip.  I opened from Express Zip, edited, saved by hitting the blue disk, and exited out of that document.  I did this on thirteen documents.  NONE of the thirteen saved in the zip file or in the folder location that they were in.  So where did they save to?

I tried doing a search and I found one of the edited in C/Users/myname/appdata/local/temp/foldername/docname  but I can not find this location...

HELP please!!!     

[Transfusion]

This is what the user interface of Word 2007 looks like:



Windows already has built-in support for zipping and unzipping files, so I don't see the need for Express Zip.
If you edit a document and then hit the save button, the document should already have its changes written to it...
If you create a new document and hit "Save As," then save it on your hard drive, can you view the document after closing and reopening Word?

[hlavine]

Yes, that is what mine looks like.

If there is a built in zip function, I am unaware of how to use it...

What I did was double click the file from Express, make changes, click the blue disc, and exit.   It wasn't until this morning after I sent the zipped file to my client did I realize that edits did not take. 

[Transfusion]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Compress-and-uncompress-files-zip-files
This is how to use the built-in zip file utility that comes with Windows XP and above.

What I did was double click the file from Express, make changes, click the blue disc, and exit.   It wasn't until this morning after I sent the zipped file to my client did I realize that edits did not take. 

I see! By opening the file from directly inside Express, you were unzipping the file to a temporary directory-so when you saved the file, you saved it to the temporary directory, and no changes were committed to the zip file. You should unzip the word document(s) onto your hard drive, edit and save it, then re-zip it for your changes to be effective.

[hlavine]

Could you tell me how to find the edited documents in my temp folder?  We're talking hours upon hours of work....I have searched for the docs by name....no avail.

[hlavine]

Somebody has been IM'ing me help on finding these documents and I have located them using command promps....but all I have is a list of them and the path directory.  Can someone point me on how to find the folder it says they are stored in?

C\users\heather lavine\appdata\local\temp

[BC_Programmer]

Somebody has been IM'ing me help on finding these documents and I have located them using command promps....but all I have is a list of them and the path directory.  Can someone point me on how to find the folder it says they are stored in?

C\users\heather lavine\appdata\local\temp

Open explorer and put that in the location bar.

Also, it's fully possible that ExpressZip deleted the files once you closed word.

[hlavine]

Nothing came up searching in explorer 

[BC_Programmer]

Nothing came up searching in explorer 

Not searching.

Open Windows Explorer.

Click the "address bar"/Location bar, which usually shows a breadcrumb bar. Click a blank area.

It will select "Computer" (or wherever you happen to be). paste in C:\users\heather lavine\appdata\local\temp

or, equally usable, Windows Key+R, and enter

Code: [Select]

explorer "C:\users\heather lavine\appdata\local\temp"

Note the colon after the C, also.

[hlavine]

OMG  That worked -- I found them!!!!    Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!               Doing a happy dance!

[patio]

I see that...