clevermanka | You know when it hurts so bad you laugh?

Laughing! Ha! Ha ha!

Yesterday morning I started revising the department's handbook for Graduate Students. The Graduate Director made some corrections and emailed me his updated version in Outlook. I opened his attachment and started making corrections of my own. I spent about six hours writing and correcting outdated information. Like a good little computer user, of course I saved every ten minutes or so.

This afternoon when I tried to work on it some more, Word brought up the old, unrevised version. "Oops," I thought. "I must have forgotten to save it to the correct folder." No problem, right? I just went back to his email, opened the attachment, and went to File-->Save As to see what was the default folder for saving things from Outlook. It was in a little folder with the path C:\Documents and Settings\lash\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLK44. I went to Windows Explorer. No such folder. I did a search. No such folder. I called the Help Desk. She was flummoxed. She said she'd call me back. About five minutes later, "I have bad news for you." Apparently, that folder doesn't really exist. Or, rather, it does, but not even administrators can access it. My file? Gone. As if it had never been saved at all.

Excuse my language, but WHAT THE GODDAMED FUCKING HELL are those SHIT EATING PINHEAD FUCKWADS hired as Microsoft programmers smoking? I'd really like to know so I could SODOMIZE THEIR WRETCHED PUCKERED ASSHOLES with it. Along with my heavily-latex-gloved fist. Seriously. I am so very, very angry.

If anyone wants to speak up for Microsoft right now? Don't even fucking try. I am not in the mood for jokes. I am looking at you,

arian1. Seriously. No jokes. I will accept suggestions for retrieving the file or words of consolation. Anything else will get deleted from the comments. Not joking. I am Not In The Mood.

It's a really good thing I'm only here for another fifteen minutes. I don't think I'd make it until 5:00.

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I have a question. When you pull up the old version of the document from the email and then click "save as", does it take you to the same temporary internet folder or another one? What I'm asking there is, does it show you that there is a version of the file in that temporary internet folder already?

If so, can you, without saving the version you opened, click on the version in that folder and then hopefully "right click" to click open on the version in the folder (if that made any sense at all)?

D.

Yes! I can see it. But I cannot open it.

"The command you selected is not available from this menu."

Excellent, try, though. Thanks.

Crap!

My sincere condolences.

One wonders if it is possible to access it from outside the Windows architecture...

D.

Tequila + tonight = good.

Try forwarding that email to yourself and then "saving as" into your own folder.

It might work.

Um. I won't defend MS.

Whatever.

And I'm sorry you had such a rotten day.

I was trying to inject humor. Thought you'd appreciate the attention.

I figured you just didn't like my jokes..

YOu won't be able to access the temporary internet files through explore unless you have admin access and then click on the 'see all files, even the hidden ones' thingie. The temp internet files are hidden, not gone. Once you get that clicked, you should be able to see it and retrieve it.

did you try opening wordpad and retrieving the file thataway? I'm not sure about outlook and where you might find the file links.

But the other thing should do it. If you don't have admin access, your it person does.

Oh! You may be able to find it using the search function.

Micro$haft strikes again!

Your help desk is as foolish as MS. Either they don't know what they're doing, or... no, they just don't know what they're doing. saycestsay is right... the folder is a "hidden system folder", and if you don't have permissions set on the PC to access it, your IT dept certainly does. But since it's in the "lash" folder, you probably have full access rights. It's just hidden.

Try this: copy and paste the whole file location (C:\Documents and Settings\lash\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLK44) into your Internet Explorer Address bar, just like it was a URL. As far as Windows is concerned, it's the same thing. The browser should become a regular Explorer folder that's holding a ton of temporary internet files in it, but your Word doc should be in there. Do a sort by date, and it should be at the top. It may have a goofy temporary name unless you changed it when saving it.

For future: when you open an attachment from Outlook, it's always going to go to one of those temp folders. Best thing to do before anything else is to save it where you really want it (My Documents, Desktop, whatever). Then start your work.

But you really should be okay, and you should not have lost all that work. It's just a case of finding it, and IT should really be able to get to it if you can't. Good luck!

You are my hero. I love you. Seriously.

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Oooo! I didn't know about that way to get to the temp files; thanks!

Since that "OLK44" name can change over time, it won't be like that for everyone. But you should always be able to get to the Temp Intranets folder with: C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\

That is, until Vista, because then the screwballs will change it again. I think they change how they handle things like this completely between Win98, WinME, Win2k, WinXP, WinEtcEtcEtc just for the helluva it, because whatever they do certainly doesn't make it more usable, as Lydia found out.

What rob said.

I myself have done this MORE than once......and Rob always retrieves it for me!

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