Office 2007 temporary files windows 7

If you have been working on a file for hours and the document was created via copying and pasting or at one point had cut the entire page or document to paste some place and then placed something else on the clip board, the data may not have been lost.

Therefore you could search your system for files of this name and then use the same "Drag and Drop" technique to view the data in Notepad to recover the data. Another interesting thing to note is that when a change is made to a document that requires a temp file to be created, when you press the save button all the temp files are merged together into one file and the file is renamed to what you called it.

The original document that you created is then deleted. How to recover a lost unsaved or corrupted Word document. Reproduction of any content on this web site is prohibited without express written consent.

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Sembee Ltd. Registered company number: If you aren't the person responsible for maintaining computers at your place of business, we recommend you talk to your system administrator before you reinstall Office. There may be special circumstances that could affect the install process. The exact steps for performing a clean boot vary depending on which version of Windows you're using.

See the support article How to perform a clean boot in Windows and look for steps for your Windows version. In Windows 10, click the Windows button, type Microsoft Upload Center in the Search box, and then double-click the Microsoft Upload Center app in the search results it may say or , depending on your Office version. In Windows 8 or 8. Here's where you'll find out whether the problem is fixed. If document cache file corruption was the reason Office couldn't repair the document cache, the problem should resolve after Office is able to complete the repair and your cloud files are able to sync.

Reboot normally. The steps for rebooting are also provided in the support article How to perform a clean boot in Windows. See the section "How to reset the computer to start normally after clean boot troubleshooting". Find your Windows version in that section and follow the appropriate steps. Resync will occur automatically. Microsoft Office Upload Center. Office Document Cache settings. To open the Office Upload Center, do one of the following, depending on your version of Windows: In Windows 10, click the Windows button, type Microsoft Upload Center in the Search box, and then double-click the Microsoft Upload Center app in the search results it may say or , depending on your Office version.

Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Here are the steps:. Click to open "My Computer" or "Computer". On the top right search box, please enter " temp " and click Enter. In the search result list, you can see all the recent temporary files.

They may have the same name or similar name as the original files. Find the word temp you want to resume. Please remember its location and close the search results. After then, you can click to open Microsoft Word. Find and click the "Office tab" on the top left and click "Open".

Next, select "All Files" in the "File of Type", navigate to the temp file and open it. Follow the wizard as it tells and saves the Word document on your computer by clicking "Save As" to do word temp file recovery. If not, do not try to retrieve word temporary file, you need to get the lost or deleted Word documents back directly. The sooner the better. Otherwise, you may lose the word files permanently.

You can use the temporary files to recover unsaved Word docs. By doing this, you will see "Recover Unsaved Documents". From there, browse "UnsavedFiles" folder. Select a file from the folder and click "Open".

When an alert pop-ups, click "Save As" to save the doc.