Since I upgraded Microsoft Office 2016 for MAC software on my old macbook pro, every time I open a word document, it gets very slow. Today it suddenly freezes and shut itself down. When I open it again, I lost my hours of work content. Is any any way to retrieve the unsaved word file on mac computer?
Most people know Microsoft's AutoSave feature, but not all of them can be retrieved by this feature. There are three ways to retrieve or recover the unsaved Microsoft Office Word on Mac.
1. Use Microsoft AutoSave and AutoRecover
AutoSave, a feature that is available in Mac OS, saves your file automatically on a periodic basis. You can set how frequently files are saved. For example, if you set AutoSave to save every 5 minutes, you may recover more information in the event of data loss — such as from a power outage — than if it's set to save every 10 or 15 minutes. By default, AutoSave saves Office files every 10 minutes. But you first need to save the document.
AutoRecover, a feature that is available in some Office applications, attempts to recover files automatically in the event of data loss. AutoRecover uses the same save interval as AutoSave. Lets you recover unsaved changes to a file if Word crashes, in which case Word will offer to recover the file after reopening.
Find an automatically saved or recovered file
Office 2016 for Mac: The next time that you open an application, files in the AutoRecovery folder are listed in the Open Recent list. Or you can find the files in the Finder under /Users//Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word/Data/Library/Preferences/AutoRecovery.
Office 2011 for Mac: The next time that you open an application, files in the AutoRecovery folder are listed in the Open Recent list. Or you can find the files in the Finder under /Users/username/Library/Application Support/ Microsoft/Office/Office 2011 AutoRecovery.
2. Find Microsoft Temporary items
Go to the Finder, select Go -> Go to folder, type /private/var/folders and look for files named "~Word Work File" inside a "TemporaryItems" folder.
3. Use Fireebok Data Recovery for Mac
If neither of the above methods helps you find them, the only solution to retrieve or recover the unsaved word file by the data recovery software. Fireebok Data Recovery for Mac support all Mac OS X and macOS, it supports to recover the word files, powerpoint files and excel files from Office 2016 for Mac and Office 2011 for Mac. It has the five scan modes: Deleted Recovery, Deep Recovery, Volume Recovery, Lost Volumes Recovery, Create Image Backup. Here we use the Deep Recovery to recover the deleted data from system volume -- Macintosh HD.
Download Fireebok Data Recovery
- Data Recovery
Recover data lost due to accidental deleting, formatting, virus infection,
and other unknown reasons.
Step 1: Launch the program and Select the Macintosh HD volume. Choose "Deep Recovery" and click "Start Scan" button
Step 2: Preview the scanning result and select them to save to the different disk or USB device.
Extra Tip: How to prevent losing the unsaved word files on mac?
Change how frequently files are automatically saved
1. On the Word menu, click Preferences.
2. Under Output and Sharing, click Save Save Preferences button .
3. In the AutoSave or AutoRecover info every box, enter how frequently you want Word to save documents.
Change where to automatically save files
1. On the Word menu, click Preferences.
2. Under Personal Settings, click File Locations
3. Under File locations, click AutoRecover files, and then click Modify.
4. Find the location where you want to automatically save files, and then click Choose.
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