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April 2, 2014 11:52:34 PM

So I'm a first year uni student and I have a 2500 words essay due on Friday, so I sat down, downloaded the template from the university website and got to work, however there was one problem, I clicked "Open" rather than "Save" on the popup download window.

So I saved regularly, then once I was done I closed the word document.

I've searched everywhere for the document but can't find it anywhere, please someone help me.

Is there a piece of software that could recover the data? Is it still in a folder somewhere?

I haven't closed the browser I opened the document with (Firefox) since I closed the document, would it still be stored somewhere?

Someone please help I'm dying.

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April 2, 2014 11:58:40 PM

Done that before :) 

Firefox has a temporary files directory. If you open the downloads manager (down arrow at top right), then double click the file in the list, it should open. Then save it elsewhere.
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April 3, 2014 12:08:12 AM

Someone Somewhere said:
Done that before :) 

Firefox has a temporary files directory. If you open the downloads manager (down arrow at top right), then double click the file in the list, it should open. Then save it elsewhere.


I've already tried that, I can't click it and when I right-click it, "Open Containing Folder" is disabled.
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April 3, 2014 12:14:04 AM

It looks like it saves it to Downloads by default...

What OS? If you open Word again, does it give you the option to recover the file?
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April 3, 2014 12:18:59 AM

It's not in Recent in Word, it's not in Downloads, it's not in %temp%, I can't find it anywhere :/ 
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April 3, 2014 12:54:45 AM

Looks like it should be in C:\Users\$Name\AppData\Local\Temp.

I just downloaded one to test and that's where it ended up. Not sure where else it could be, sorry.
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