Where are the temp excel files from Outlook saved?

[Berryracer]

A colleague of mine is using Outlook 2007

He received a meeting invite which containted an Excel file in it, he opened the excel file and worked on it for 2 hours then clicked SAVE at the top thinking it would be saved

the next time he opened that excel file from the email he got, it reverted back to the original files

I told him to check his temporary internet files but he did and didn't find the newly saved file

what else to do to recover this files or where else could it be?

please advice, he is on Windows 7

 

[Mushkins]

Should be in the Outlook temp file, which is considered a hidden/protected OS folder.

The Win7/Win8 path should be:
C:\users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook

 

[Berryracer]

thanks bro ill try that

 

[Berryracer]

man I can't thank you enough! you saved the day! mmy colleague found the file and he was saved!!! thank you sooooooooooooo much!!!!!!

cheers

 

[Fardringle]

Make sure he saves the file in a proper location so he doesn't lose it if/when the temporary folder is emptied.

 

[Berryracer]

Make sure he saves the file in a proper location so he doesn't lose it if/when the temporary folder is emptied.

yes thanks bro, guess he learned his lesson now

 

[Mushkins]

yes thanks bro, guess he learned his lesson now

No problem, frankly i'm surprised I dont hear about the same issue a million billion times a day from how often I see people open things right from their email and just start pounding away.

IMO it's about time the Save button was removed and they strictly leave Save As and let autosaving take care of the old Save functionality. People should be more aware of where they're putting their files.

 

[Berryracer]

IMO it's about time the Save button was removed and they strictly leave Save As and let autosaving take care of the old Save functionality. People should be more aware of where they're putting their files.

Indeed bro, at this day and age, this is simply not acceptable from an advanced office suite like MS Office

 

[taq8ojh]

No problem, frankly i'm surprised I dont hear about the same issue a million billion times a day from how often I see people open things right from their email and just start pounding away.

Lusers do this ALL THE TIME. There really should be huge red text poping up saying "Don't do this son! You won't be able to find it again." - but then again, people would have to be forced to read stuff, which is even more impossible, considering 99% of them blindly click next, next, next, and then claim "it happened all by itself".