How to recover deleted office files?

Feel frustrated as you have lost the documents that you have working for hours? Feel anxious when you cannot find your documents which you need for tomorrow? What should you do in that case. Will you choose to give up and then build a new one,or try to recover them? If you have not enough time to build a new one, you can only try to find your documents back. And apparently, that is more time-saving than to build a new document. As we know that you can still find the unsaved files.

The Document Recovery feature in Office

Most of Office version with the built-in feature to help you recover the documents if the software closed unexpectedly. So if the office closed unexpectedly, or you have sudden computer crash, next time you open the office, it will give you the chance to recover the unsaved file.

If you do not save the files while you are editing it, next time you open the software, you can see them in the left side. In the Document Recovery part, it displays your unsaved documents with the name, version time and data. You can choose to open or delete it, or click Save as to save this file.

If you cannot find the unsaved file in the left side, you can find through this path: File>Mange Document>Recover Unsaved Documents. You can find the files is saved as ASD file.

Temporary file versions

Even if your documents are lost or deleted, you still have chance to find their temporary versions. If you cannot find them, they may have been hidden. You can modify the settings to show the hidden files. You can open the File Explorer options, click View tab. In the Advanced settings part, you will see the option of Hidden files and folders. You should check the option of Show hidden files, folders or drives. Then you can check the location where your files was saved. You can distinguish your need file from the file name. As you have found your document, you can replace the extension “.tmp” with “doc.” Then open this document to check if it is the one you need.

Restore your document

If your lost documents is not in the recycle bin, you have to use a data recovery software. Hdata recovery software can help you to retrieve the the deleted office documents from your computer. Once you have lost data on your hard drive, you should avoid adding new data to it, and try to restore with recovery tool as soon as possible.

To reduce your data loss in office, you it’s very necessary to enable the auto save feature. Click the office button in the opened document, choose Save. On the left side, you are able to customize how documents are saved. You can set the time period of the office to auto save your file, and the auto save location. Then in the Advanced part, you should check the option that Always create backup copy.