File is gone - !

I have been working on a word doc file named outline_simple for one month. Today it was gone - I found I had trashed it somehow. Although I found it, I went into Time Machine to try to find past versions anyway. There were none. Just "autosave" files of the doc, which were very old.
What gives?
Thanks ,
- Daniel

A file must be on the computer HD during a backup for it to be backed up. If a file is saved and the computer turned off before an hourly backup occurs, then the file is not backed up.
Try creating a new word doc and see if it gets backed up. Be sure to leave the file alone and the computer on for at least an hour. Then check the TM backups.
If it's not there, then it has something to do with your word processor and how it stores files.

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