u/cherrysung

Hi all,

I'm really hoping someone can help me out right now. Despite the degree to which my post is put-together, I am actively sobbing quite heavily over the loss of my file. I'm a bachelor's student working toward my degree and have just, in the last ten minutes, lost half of the assessment piece I've been working on for a few weeks. I do not understand what happened to the file. I finished it, saved it, went to email it to myself: and realised, the file attached to the email only had half of the piece in it. So I reopened the document straight from Microsoft Word's recently opened section, and therein lay just half of my assessment.

I have checked the <Recover Unsaved Documents> avenue, but nothing. I have tried following the file path C:\Users\<my username>\Microsoft\Office\UnsavedFiles, but this does not appear to exist on my device. I have no .wbk or .tmp files associated with this assessment piece. It has just... fucking vanished, and I am losing my mind over it. Could I rewrite the half that I lost? Yes, and that may be my last resort, but I was so incredibly proud of what I had finally drafted, only to lose it at the very last minute. I am so lost as to what has happened and why.

Does anyone have any guidance?