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[petersk8er]

Hello,

Today I lost my powerpoint presentation. i opened it from hotmail and start working on it. I saved it not being aware that it was saved in temporary internet files. Later on I used CCleaneras as I do every day. it seems that I lost my presentation. does anyone have suggestions.

Thanks a lot

[Disk4mat]

Pete,
How did you open it from Hotmail? Was it in the form o fan attachment? Do you access Hotmail using your web browser? I cant think of a scenario where you would have a document saved in 'temporary internet files' unless you accessed the file via a browser.

Im figuring you have Office installed on your system and used PowerPoint to open/edit an attached PPT from your hotmail account? If thats the case the file should still reside in the email message. Unless you deleted the message.

[Nergal]

Disk4mat, on Sep 29 2008, 03:04 PM, said:

Pete,
How did you open it from Hotmail? Was it in the form o fan attachment? Do you access Hotmail using your web browser? I cant think of a scenario where you would have a document saved in 'temporary internet files' unless you accessed the file via a browser. Im figuring you have Office installed on your system and used PowerPoint to open/edit an attached PPT from your hotmail account? If thats the case the file should still reside in the email message. Unless you deleted the message.

Disk, yeah it sounds like he hit open instead of save when he clicked on the attachment, via browserbased eMail. My HR person at work just did this with an excel file; She clicked open, she and the CFO did a bunch of work on it and then he clicked save instead of save as saving it to the Temp ie folder it was opened to. Luckly she did not empty herf temp files (which I have happening as soon as browser closes) and I was able to retrieve it from the temp files. Unfortunitly Pete was samrt and used CCleaner

Pete ,you can try a program like recuva (link is above and is from the same company as CCleaner) I use Restoration MFC Application (by Brian Kato) which is Free and Portable but AFAIK doesn't do as well as Recuva. However, since it was in the temp folder and depending on the number of passes you have CCleaner set to do. You may not be able to do a recovery of your changes.

Recuva is available as a portable non-install program, http://www.recuva.co...downloading-zip but for some reason if you try to go there via the recuva download link in this page's header they've not placed the "other builds link" (posting said page flaw now in recuva forum)

[Andavari]

petersk8er, on Sep 29 2008, 02:51 PM, said:

i opened it from hotmail and start working on it. I saved it not being aware that it was saved in temporary internet files.

That's an annoyance with Internet Explorer 7 (or newer) as I found out myself editing local HTML files that it stores them in the Temporary Internet Files, that's completely different from its past behavior.

[petersk8er]

Nergal, on Sep 29 2008, 10:28 PM, said:

Disk, yeah it sounds like he hit open instead of save when he clicked on the attachment, via browserbased eMail. My HR person at work just did this with an excel file; She clicked open, she and the CFO did a bunch of work on it and then he clicked save instead of save as saving it to the Temp ie folder it was opened to. Luckly she did not empty herf temp files (which I have happening as soon as browser closes) and I was able to retrieve it from the temp files. Unfortunitly Pete was samrt and used CCleaner

Pete ,you can try a program like recuva (link is above and is from the same company as CCleaner) I use Restoration MFC Application (by Brian Kato) which is Free and Portable but AFAIK doesn't do as well as Recuva. However, since it was in the temp folder and depending on the number of passes you have CCleaner set to do. You may not be able to do a recovery of your changes.

Recuva is available as a portable non-install program, http://www.recuva.co...downloading-zip but for some reason if you try to go there via the recuva download link in this page's header they've not placed the "other builds link" (posting said page flaw now in recuva forum)

Hey guys

Thanks for the answers

Yes, I opened the file from my webbrowser, worked a bunch on it and clicked save instead of saved as(very stupid). I still have the file in my eamil but as it was before working on. Will try Recuva

Thanks