Help! I KNOW I'm supposed to copy my Outlook Express attachments into
my own files before working on them, but forgot. I worked on a Word
document directly as an attachment, saving it as I went along, and of
course, when I opened it up today, all my editing was gone. Where did
that work go?

I found out the hard way that unless you use "save as" that OE defaults to
saving to a temporary file. You could go into all the temp files and look
for it, but if you haven't cleaned them out recently, there may be a lot of
them. Good luck.
Maybe one of the MVPs has an easier way.

Pamela

wrote in message
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Help! I KNOW I'm supposed to copy my Outlook Express attachments into
my own files before working on them, but forgot. I worked on a Word
document directly as an attachment, saving it as I went along, and of
course, when I opened it up today, all my editing was gone. Where did
that work go?

"Pamela G." ëúá
...
I found out the hard way that unless you use "save as" that OE defaults to
saving to a temporary file. You could go into all the temp files and look
for it, but if you haven't cleaned them out recently, there may be a lot of
them. Good luck.
Maybe one of the MVPs has an easier way.

Pamela

wrote in message
ups.com...
Help! I KNOW I'm supposed to copy my Outlook Express attachments into
my own files before working on them, but forgot. I worked on a Word
document directly as an attachment, saving it as I went along, and of
course, when I opened it up today, all my editing was gone. Where did
that work go?

When you open an attachment, it is stored as a file in a temporary
location. Any editing and saving you do affects that temporary copy.
When you close the message to which contains the attachment, the temporary
copy is deleted. However, if the temporary copy is still open in Word
when the message is closed, the Word document may not be deleted. IN that
case you may be able to fins it by searching the Temporary Internet Files
folder.

Assuming that you're using Windows XP or 2000, you can do that this way:

In order for this to work, your system msut be set to display hidden files
and folders and NOT to hide protected operating system files.

Open Windows Explorer.
Type "%userprofile%\Local Settings" in the address bar and press Enter.
In the right-hand pane, right click on the Temporary Internet Files
folder.
Click Search, or whaetever it's called in XP, on the context menu.
Type the file name into the box and click the Search Now button.

If the file still exists, the search should find it. Otherwise it has
been deleted and you're out of luck unless you happen to have a
deleted-file recovery program handy.


wrote:
Help! I KNOW I'm supposed to copy my Outlook Express attachments into
my own files before working on them, but forgot. I worked on a Word
document directly as an attachment, saving it as I went along, and of
course, when I opened it up today, all my editing was gone. Where did
that work go?

--
Gary L. Smith
Columbus, Ohio

It WAS in the Internet Explorer Temporary Internet Files (TIF).
Chances are it's gone now. If you last saved the file before you closed
the message in OE, then OE will attempt to delete it.

Even if it's still there, it won't show up if you look at the TIF via IE
Internet Options or Windows Explorer.

If it's still there, you can get to it if you open a Command Prompt
window. But it its awkward since you are dealing with hidden folders
and very long and cryptic folder names. If you are familiar with "DOS"
commands, and get to a command prompt above the TIF, the command
DIR /A /S *.DOC
should show the file it it's there. If so you can CD commands to
maneuver to it and then use the COPY command to copy it to a normal
folder.

--

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


wrote in message
ups.com...
Help! I KNOW I'm supposed to copy my Outlook Express attachments into
my own files before working on them, but forgot. I worked on a Word
document directly as an attachment, saving it as I went along, and of
course, when I opened it up today, all my editing was gone. Where did
that work go?

I don't think its "findable" in the TIF. OE uses a different file name for
many of its pieces that it opens from the TIF and it would be quite
difficult to locate the file, and if OE closed, then it deleted it anyway
probably.

steve

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
It WAS in the Internet Explorer Temporary Internet Files (TIF). Chances
are it's gone now. If you last saved the file before you closed the
message in OE, then OE will attempt to delete it.

Even if it's still there, it won't show up if you look at the TIF via IE
Internet Options or Windows Explorer.

If it's still there, you can get to it if you open a Command Prompt
window. But it its awkward since you are dealing with hidden folders and
very long and cryptic folder names. If you are familiar with "DOS"
commands, and get to a command prompt above the TIF, the command
DIR /A /S *.DOC
should show the file it it's there. If so you can CD commands to maneuver
to it and then use the COPY command to copy it to a normal folder.

--

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


wrote in message
ups.com...
Help! I KNOW I'm supposed to copy my Outlook Express attachments into
my own files before working on them, but forgot. I worked on a Word
document directly as an attachment, saving it as I went along, and of
course, when I opened it up today, all my editing was gone. Where did
that work go?

I did a test of that before posting and it worked. I opened an Excel
file from an OE message modified it and saved it. Via the command
prompts I was able to find the file in the TIF (it had the same name as
the original attachment). I was then able to use the COPY command to
copy it to a normal folder. I was then able to open the copied file and
it had the changes that I made.

This was on Windows XP SP2.

--

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


"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
I don't think its "findable" in the TIF. OE uses a different file name
for many of its pieces that it opens from the TIF and it would be quite
difficult to locate the file, and if OE closed, then it deleted it
anyway probably.

steve

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
It WAS in the Internet Explorer Temporary Internet Files (TIF).
Chances are it's gone now. If you last saved the file before you
closed the message in OE, then OE will attempt to delete it.

Even if it's still there, it won't show up if you look at the TIF via
IE Internet Options or Windows Explorer.

If it's still there, you can get to it if you open a Command Prompt
window. But it its awkward since you are dealing with hidden folders
and very long and cryptic folder names. If you are familiar with
"DOS" commands, and get to a command prompt above the TIF, the
command
DIR /A /S *.DOC
should show the file it it's there. If so you can CD commands to
maneuver to it and then use the COPY command to copy it to a normal
folder.

--

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


wrote in message
ups.com...
Help! I KNOW I'm supposed to copy my Outlook Express attachments
into
my own files before working on them, but forgot. I worked on a Word
document directly as an attachment, saving it as I went along, and
of
course, when I opened it up today, all my editing was gone. Where
did
that work go?

Okay. Thanks for that. When it opens embedded files, it does not use the
original filename, so I figured it was the same for attachments.

Did OE delete it when it closed?

steve

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
I did a test of that before posting and it worked. I opened an Excel file
from an OE message modified it and saved it. Via the command prompts I was
able to find the file in the TIF (it had the same name as the original
attachment). I was then able to use the COPY command to copy it to a
normal folder. I was then able to open the copied file and it had the
changes that I made.

This was on Windows XP SP2.

--

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


"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
I don't think its "findable" in the TIF. OE uses a different file name
for many of its pieces that it opens from the TIF and it would be quite
difficult to locate the file, and if OE closed, then it deleted it anyway
probably.

steve

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
It WAS in the Internet Explorer Temporary Internet Files (TIF). Chances
are it's gone now. If you last saved the file before you closed the
message in OE, then OE will attempt to delete it.

Even if it's still there, it won't show up if you look at the TIF via IE
Internet Options or Windows Explorer.

If it's still there, you can get to it if you open a Command Prompt
window. But it its awkward since you are dealing with hidden folders
and very long and cryptic folder names. If you are familiar with "DOS"
commands, and get to a command prompt above the TIF, the command
DIR /A /S *.DOC
should show the file it it's there. If so you can CD commands to
maneuver to it and then use the COPY command to copy it to a normal
folder.

--

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


wrote in message
ups.com...
Help! I KNOW I'm supposed to copy my Outlook Express attachments into
my own files before working on them, but forgot. I worked on a Word
document directly as an attachment, saving it as I went along, and of
course, when I opened it up today, all my editing was gone. Where did
that work go?

It's still there after several OE closings and Windows reboots. In fact
I found another attachment that's been in the TIF for several weeks.

--

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


"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
Okay. Thanks for that. When it opens embedded files, it does not use
the original filename, so I figured it was the same for attachments.

Did OE delete it when it closed?

steve

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
I did a test of that before posting and it worked. I opened an Excel
file from an OE message modified it and saved it. Via the command
prompts I was able to find the file in the TIF (it had the same name
as the original attachment). I was then able to use the COPY command
to copy it to a normal folder. I was then able to open the copied
file and it had the changes that I made.

This was on Windows XP SP2.

--

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


"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...
I don't think its "findable" in the TIF. OE uses a different file
name for many of its pieces that it opens from the TIF and it would
be quite difficult to locate the file, and if OE closed, then it
deleted it anyway probably.

steve

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
It WAS in the Internet Explorer Temporary Internet Files (TIF).
Chances are it's gone now. If you last saved the file before you
closed the message in OE, then OE will attempt to delete it.

Even if it's still there, it won't show up if you look at the TIF
via IE Internet Options or Windows Explorer.

If it's still there, you can get to it if you open a Command Prompt
window. But it its awkward since you are dealing with hidden
folders and very long and cryptic folder names. If you are
familiar with "DOS" commands, and get to a command prompt above the
TIF, the command
DIR /A /S *.DOC
should show the file it it's there. If so you can CD commands to
maneuver to it and then use the COPY command to copy it to a normal
folder.

--

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


wrote in message
ups.com...
Help! I KNOW I'm supposed to copy my Outlook Express attachments
into
my own files before working on them, but forgot. I worked on a
Word
document directly as an attachment, saving it as I went along, and
of
course, when I opened it up today, all my editing was gone. Where
did
that work go?