Trouble:
You may have encountered a situation when you modify a email attachment file which comes as an email attachment from someone, after making all the modifications to the file you have closed that file editor program.
But after some time, you are not able to locate the modified file because you have opened it directly from email message on Outlook.
Real Time Example:
‘This problem stated above is quite unusual but has happened with with one of my office colleague when I have mailed some SQL Alter Scripts in a file called alter.txt, and she modified and saved it but does not remember where she has saved the file”
Let’s see how can we find the modified and saved file.
Fix:
Follow the procedure below to locate the modified file:
1. Open Start >> Run and type “%Temp%” (without quotes).
2. Click on LOCALS~1 in the left side blue bar or press “Up” button in the explorer toolbar.
3. Open the folder Temporary Internet Files, you will see a folder name starting with OLK ( this is the folder where that modified file is located).
4. Double click to open this folder (OLK44) and you will find your modified file.
Tip: It is always recommended to first save the attached file from the email to somewhere on known path before modifying it.
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I went there but there’s no such folder exist.
I checked the folder option, it allows to show all system folders and hidden folders.
any idea why system would do that?
Cliff
No such folder … onthing I have in TEmprary Internet Fiels is folder called “Content.IE5″
Seems that Explorer do not show subfolders in ‘Temporary Internet Files’ (I dont’t why), but subfolders are there!
- Open Command Prompt, go to the ‘Temporary Internet Files’ folder, then type ‘dir OTK*.*’ (no quotes!): you will have the list of every subfolder starting with OTK. You can also try ‘dir *.’ to have a list of all subfolders, plus all files without extension.
- copy the subfolder name (for me was ‘OTK4′) in Explorer Bar and Enter. You will access the subfolder and finde all your files.
I hope have been useful
Thank you so much for posting this. I was in such a panic. I knew I had saved the file, but after searching everywhere and not finding it, I was resigned to the fact that I had lost a day’s work. Then I found this post, I located the file in the Temp directory [the name was a bit different from the one you gave, but I could tell by the dates where to find mine] and what a relief it was to see my file!!!!!!
Thank you again!!
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Thank you sooooo much for posting this solution! This save me about 8 hours worth of lost work. I even contacted Microsoft help desk and they could not help me, but I was able to track down my lost files with these steps in about 20 minutes.
Again, thank you for the great guidance!
You are the best. I had lost the hope about the data which I missed to save locally. I was about to do the rework but tried google and your link came up to the rescue. You have saved about 6 hrs of my efforts. Great tip.
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