Recover Lost Temporary Files

I almost had a heart attack this morning because a memo I had spent hours working on was suddenly goooone. Turned out it was because I was saving it as I had opened it from a Gmail account, making it a temp file, making it disappear when I decided to be responsible and actually shut down my computer. So it wasn't in the recycle bin, wasn't in the temp folder, was unsearchable.

3 failed recovery programs and 1 hour of Google research later, I found a cure:

First, download this program: Restoration

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html


Then, go to the application you need (word, excel, etc), click on the restored copy, and do one of two things (it should become evident which you need):

1) on the "Open" button, click the little down arrow on the right of the button and select "open and repair"

2) on the drop down menu "File Type" select "Recover Text"


It won't be formatted but it will be a hell of a lot better than starting from scratch.


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