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  • 15-10-2008 3:54pm
    #1
    The Volt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,957 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys, I'm currently in college on a library computer, I just finished typing up quite a large assignment and the thing has bloody froze before I could save it and send it to my home PC.

    The thing plainly is not responding, is there any way at all in thw world that I can fix this without having to type it all out again?


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  • #2
    andrewh5
    Registered Users Posts: 588 ✭✭✭andrewh5


    Voltwad wrote: »
    Hey guys, I'm currently in college on a library computer, I just finished typing up quite a large assignment and the thing has bloody froze before I could save it and send it to my home PC.

    The thing plainly is not responding, is there any way at all in thw world that I can fix this without having to type it all out again?

    Use ctrl-alt-delete to bring up task manager. click on processes then click on cpu twice to oder the applications using most cpu time at the top. As long as your word processor programme isn't using the most you can close what is top of the list to free up the system.

    If that doesn't work you are pretty much stuffed. Sometimes after a hard reboot (hold power switch in until PC turns off then turn it back on) when they are hung the doc can be recovered - but only if you have been saving as you went along.

    Moral? Save continuously as you go - it saves heartache later.


  • #3
    stevire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭stevire


    If its Word 2007 it has a new feature to restore documents from the last known point! Also, if you can access the computer at all (after ending the non responding program which is more than likely Word) there should be a temp file of the file.


  • #4
    The Volt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,957 ✭✭✭The Volt


    The CPU digits are constantly changing =/ Can I shut everything but it?


    Edit: It's gone I think...

    I can't get into the temporary files


  • #5
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,961 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    is autosave not on by default? please tell me you made an initial save..


  • #6
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,427 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    autosave in word ?? - they dropped that ages ago for fast save

    if you want to keep docs intact then
    turn off fast save - it will then be contiguous and easier to recover
    turn on always create backup copy - so you no longer have one point of failure and can revert back to the previous save

    FFS 20 years ago all word processors gave you a second chance and you could nearly always recover a good bit of your docs

    if the doc is corrupt then try and open it in open office as it is better at reading .DOC files than word - i'm not sure about docx but there is an openoffice add on for it, and BTW when excel files died in the days of DOS , you had a much better chance of recovering the file with Lotus 123 :rolleyes:


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