Please Help. I AM SO FUCKING PISSED. So please help me.

[justira]

I was working on a story during my lunch break, one I really liked and was hoping to complete tonight. I'd downloaded the latest version off my site, which is where I store things that I work on in multiple locations, so I can access it wherever. I clicked "Open with" to open it in Word and merrily began writing away. Unfortnately, when you do this, Word saves the file to C:\Documents and Settings\(Username)\Local Settings\Temp, and if you try to save changes, it DOESN'T PROMPT YOU WHETHER YOU WANT TO SAVE IT TO YOUR OWN DAMNED DRIVE THE MOTHERFUCKING BITCH. I'm pretty sure I did save it. I'm very good about that usually.

I then had to turn off my computer to move it to my new office. When I turned it back on, the file was NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. I thought the Temp folder was just dumped or something, but apparently, my file NEVER EXISTED. I looked in the Temp folder and files I'd worked on WEEKS ago were still there. But not this file.

I ran all sorts of recovery software, but NOTHING.

Then I got totally confused and did something stupid -- downloaded the file again to see if that's where it really ended up. Which saved a file of the same name in that place, so now if there *was* something of the appropriate name hiding deep in there somewhere, it's probably been overwritten.

I am so fucking pissed.

I felt really good about what I'd added. And now I'm really pissed and distressed and can't go back to do it again, and I don't know how long it will be until I can open the earlier version of file without feeling UTTER RAGE and not being able to work on it anymore. God DAMN it, I was almost DONE.

MOTHERFUCKING HELL.

I had some stuff I REALLY LIKED written. I dearly want it back. I am really upset. If any of you have any ideas as to what to do, please let me know ASAP.


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EDIT: And you know, JUST TO TOP THINGS OFF, I was trying to answer to a comment and had gotten a pretty invovled one written with a lot of links and references and such, when I previewed it and accidentally clicked on one of the links. When I went back, my comment and all the references and code were GONE. And of course I'd closed the windows the links were pointing to and have to FIND them again. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. Stupid JavaScript-powered interfaces. FUCK YOU ALL.

Comments

[megalotro.livejournal.com]

Harass me about this when I get home (7:30ish) if you're still having problems - I used to do tech support, but I'm at work ;_;

-Tro

[justira.livejournal.com]

I'm at work, too, and 7:30 your time is 10:30 my time -_-;;

If there's no chance of earlier help I can stay here, late, but I'm also a bit stuck workflow-wise here at the moment since I'm terrified of doing much in case I accidentally overwrite any part of the missing file somehow.

God damn it.

[megalotro.livejournal.com]

Can you zip your temp drive, cache dir, and trashbin and put it on your site or something, then link me so I can peruse? Either way, if it's in there, you'll have it saved anyway. Make sure you have hidden files visible ;_; And whatever you do, don't clear your cache!

-Tro

[justira.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I don't know. I'm pretty sure I scoured those, and by this point I'm convinced that my STUPID downloading of the file with the same name has overwritten anything that might have been lurking.

I didn't even find Autosave temp files for the bugger! Nothing! Word files that I was working on in LAST JUNE are lying about, both extant but buried somewhere, and deleted but recoverable. I found files I'd deleted AGES ago Just... not the single file I need. Ugh.

And it's not like I even deleted that one.

If you can't think of anything, I think I need to get back to work. Thanks for trying, and let me know if you think of anything. I guess I'll just try to calm down and rewrite what I can remember.

Just... jesus.

I'm really sorry for being angry and terse. I really appreciate your trying to help, I'm just pissed and it's not coming across. Just... know that I do appreciate it.

[megalotro.livejournal.com]

:( that's a huge bummer and I totally understand (haha, anyone remember my pic?) ~ only thing I can think of is to look at all the $blahblah files in your cache and see if it's in there - there should be an image of it even if you didn't save it at all. Otherwise, there isn't too much else you can do :( Restoring the system might have wiped the recent cache though~

-Tro

[ash-mantle.livejournal.com]

what version of word?