Recovering a lost word file.

I have been working on a word file on MacBook pro continuously over the last month. The last date that I had worked on it was 27th July but I opened my document today and it's an older version of the file, last modified on 25th. I'm not sure what's happened to the file, I know that I've saved it and I had sent the updated one to my gmail on the 26th - thus, it cannot have been modified last on 25th. However, I cannot find it anywhere on my system - i'm not sure if I've emptied it, i don't think that's possible (if that is the case, what do i do?) and if i haven't, how on earth do I locate it? It's just completely bizarre. I think this also happened as well when i was trying to upload it onto dropbox. Please help.

I mean that I had sent a file to my email on the 26th which I have already retrieved and saved on the local drive. However, the file had been worked on until the 27th (and i had not sent that updated version to my email) and that is what has been lost. 
The file that i found on my mac today did not even reflect the version that i had sent to myself on the 26th but an older version (25th) and that is what I don't understand. I'm not sure if I've made that any clearr.

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