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Hi everyone,
Let me know if I'm missing something here...
I am trying to recovery a file created in Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. The file was lost after a power outage. In an attempt to recover the file, my first thought was to check for the file in the Microsoft AutoRecovery 2008 folder within my hardrive. However, the folder only contains a total of four files! Why? If my Microsoft Word is set up to auto save a document every 10 minutes...then how is it possible the folder could only contain 4 files? I am at a loss of how else to recover this file. I am currently attempting to do so with a free trial of Data Recovery Software to see if the file I lost even still exists, with no success so far.
Any help would be appriciated.
Thanks.

jwaldron91 wrote:
I guess I was expecting more than four.
Why? How many?
files I have recently written, and then not saved, have not autosaved, and the file I just lost is not recoving itself either.
As Microsoft tells you any chance it gets, AutoRecover is not a "substitute for regularly saving your files […]. Saving your files often is the best way to preserve your work." (That's from Word 2008 Help.)
An AutoRecovery file is deleted automatically when the respective Word file is opened and saved, or opened and closed without any changes. Barring bugs or other errors, the four files you found presumably correspond to four Word files which did not meet those conditions.
And thanks for this tip, but neither worked.
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