InDesign Document Recovery....HELP I'm desperate

I am a moron. I open my InDesign file from my email on Microsoft Outlook. Worked for four hours on it and saved it, but did not do a Save As onto my desktop. I closed out the email and clicked No when asked if I wanted to save the document, thinking I had been doing so. Low and behold, the file I had been working on is not on my desktop and when I do an open recent in InDesign I can't recover the document. Does anyone know if there is anything I can do, or am I screwed? Or is this and Outlook issue? Thanks for any suggestions....

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Since I saved it, there should be some type of temporary file somewhere, right? .... named something random like RXJM...etc?
Theoretically, yes, to both. If I remember correctly, the file extension wouldn't be random, and so the file type should still be .indd.
Can you search for files "modified the last 24 hours and of type 'InDesign file'"?

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