is it possible to recover unsaved Word file?

[Barfo]

My mom was using my laptop with Windows 7 to type a Word document, she hovered over the program in the taskbar and saw the window preview, not knowing what this was she clicked the X to close it, Word didn't prompt to save before closing (I guess some unpolished thing with the Win 7 beta) so now she's pissed she lost her document.

I already looked in the autorecovery folder and found nothing, anyone has an idea how to recover it?

 

[CalvinHobbes]

Check the temp folders and see if Word autosaved it. It may not be the whole document but I've recovered some docs that way.

 

[Barfo]

Originally posted by: CalvinHobbes
Check the temp folders and see if Word autosaved it. It may not be the whole document but I've recovered some docs that way.

Found a recent copy of the document, though it was in an odd folder, thanks for your help.

 

[zlatan24]

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