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Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / August 2007find hidden, partial, corrupt file?
Working on project - 5 hours, not worried about backing up as autosave is doing its job every 10. Sys freezes, really freezes, finally able to get force quit to open and all apps not responding - first ever, shut all but pp, wait, still... rehash in head what I did for last 10 minutes, 'force quit', reopen, no ppt with odd self generated # tagged with temp for name, no error, mess, no fu.... nothing. Did I say 5 hrs of work? Have done global searches, have been on web for 3 hrs today (had to walk away yesterday), lost, don't get it, where did those saves go? PLEASE someone help me. Unfortunately you aren't the first - and most certainly won't be the last - to *misinterpret* the Save AutoRecover Info feature. It *is not* the same as an automatic Save. It only offers some degree of protection against the loss of recent changes in the event of an inappropriate shutdown - but *only* if the file has already been saved at least once... Otherwise there is no file. If the file *had* been saved [by you] any AutoRecover Info would present itself the next time you were able to launch the program. Research it in PowerPoint Help for more about it (Word & Excel work the same way) - and remember to save your work as you go. Command+S every once in a while works wonders. BTW: Going for that long without ever saving the file is quite likely what caused/contributed to the system freeze in the first place. Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 8/19/07 12:52 PM, in article 1187542358.103326.257030@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com, "kat" > Working on project - 5 hours, not worried about backing up as autosave > is doing its job every 10. Sys freezes, really freezes, finally able [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > today (had to walk away yesterday), lost, don't get it, where did > those saves go? PLEASE someone help me. > Unfortunately you aren't the first - and most certainly won't be the last - > to *misinterpret* the Save AutoRecover Info feature. It *is not* the same as [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > today (had to walk away yesterday), lost, don't get it, where did > > those saves go? PLEASE someone help me. Today must be the day for this stuff to happen. Also a long project. Had auto-save on and also did many saves on my own. Of the 46 slides completed, I deleted 3 of the last 4. My iBook froze for a few seconds and when I looked at the screen, found I only had the first and last slide remaining. The file on my desktop now only has those two slides. My reboot did nothing to help. Seems to me there should be a temp file location to recover this data. But I cannot find one and don't really know where to look. Do you or anyone else have an idea on this aspect? I am using an G3 iBook, and Microsoft Powerpoint X version 1. Not to be an alarmist, but if thing are happening as you describe you could have some [potentially] serious problems with your Mac. If you haven't done so recently I would suggest that you first *back up* your HD - or at least the personal data files if not the whole thing. If you don't have a backup program I recommend SuperDuper! Which you can download as a free working trial from the following site: http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html Once you get backed up run Disk Utility - Verify Disk & post back with the results plus some more specific information: Specs on your Mac - disk space used/free, RAM, etc.; Exact Version of OS X; Correct version of Office (PPt) - look in PPtMenu> About PPt - what you mentioned (Powerpoint X version 1) doesn't sound quite right:) Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 8/19/07 8:21 PM, in article 1187569293.753325.279490@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com, >> Unfortunately you aren't the first - and most certainly won't be the last - >> to *misinterpret* the Save AutoRecover Info feature. It *is not* the same as [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > > I am using an G3 iBook, and Microsoft Powerpoint X version 1. |
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