Microsoft Office Publisher >> retrieving unsaved work

by Maureen Birss » Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:54:38 GMT

Can someone out there pleeeese help me!
My computer was turned off before saving quite a big job
on Publisher 98, is there any way of retrieving my lost
work.
Many Thanks
Maureen


Microsoft Office Publisher >> retrieving unsaved work

by Don Schmidt » Thu, 02 Oct 2003 23:15:37 GMT


If the work hadn't been saved it was in memory, RAM. RAM needs electricity
to hold data. When the computer was turned off, the electricity was no
longer present in the RAM..... All data went up in cyber smoke. It's gone.
The only place the "work" is now is in human memory.


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Don
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Microsoft Office Publisher >> retrieving unsaved work

by Ed Bennett » Fri, 03 Oct 2003 04:04:35 GMT

After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a message
from Maureen Birss < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >...

Publisher keeps a lot of its work in temporary files on the hard disk
instead of in RAM.
Therefore I suggest you search your hard drive(s) for folders called "Temp",
and look in those for files ending in ".TMP". In these, look for files
starting with "PUB" or "PUZ", and try to load them in Publisher.
You may recover some of your document by this method

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retrieving unsaved work

by » Fri, 03 Oct 2003 07:16:58 GMT

You may be lucky. Publisher makes *.tmp files that can be re-named to *.pub
and opened and need to be immediately re-saved by doing a SAVE AS. You will
need to find where the *.tmp file resides.
This has saved many people many times.
I would be surprised if the *.tmp file was not there.

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