Sometimes as a geek I get asked by people the following question: "Where has all my work gone?". Generally the look on people's face is something like the one I'm pulling for you all now. Obviously though this being the medium of word and as I can't be bothered with taking a photo this is entirely lost on you all, however it's an awesome face so I thought I'd mention it. Anyway, the standard response to this question is "you're a computer illiterate fool, did you really think that the correct answer to the question 'Do you want to save the changes to "Figures for the last 3 years for funding"?' was 'No'?". Of course, having just done that myself I am now slightly more sympathetic. And by sympathetic I mean incredibly joyful that I now have another two hours of work for myself. Joy.
You'd think so wouldn't you? Turns out it was auto-saving, but auto-saving to the temporary folder it had opened in (it had opened up from Outlook). After using command prompt to get into the Outlook Temporary folder I found a version that was up to date. Hooray for being a geek.
Well if you had just opened a document sent attached in Outlook you can't expect things to be simple. This is Windows we're talking about after all. Always save the document somewhere else before working on it otherwise you find it's buried somewhere obscure in a Windows temp file with some snappy name like OLK3X.
Once while working on something which was autosaving away happily, I engaged in some "deleting all the text for a laugh" horseplay.
It autosaved while there was no text at all, I panicked and closed it. Rage.
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