UPDATE: the updated version of this post for Office 2016 / Office 365 (Word 15 / PowerPoint 15 / Excel 15) can be found here: Question: I accidentally messed up the Office documents (Word/PowerPoint/Excel) I was working on, and I didn’t save it before, so I wanted to get the auto-saved version from the AutoRecovery-folder as I’ve done before in Office 2008 and 2004. I forgot where to find the AutoRecovery-folder, so I used Office 2011’s build-in Help-option to get a hint. It told me I would be able to find the folder via this path: ~/Users/ username/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 AutoRecovery But when I open that folder I have a “Office 2004 AutoRecovery” and a “Office 2008 AutoRecovery”-folder, but there’s no such folder for Office 2011 I checked in the Office 2011 Preferences to make sure Auto-saving is switched on, and it is so where did the folder go? Where are my auto-save documents? Answer: You might have guessed: there’s a fault in the Office 2011 Help file. ![]() Nowadays, the AutoRecovery-folder is located in an entirely different location on your Mac. Trying to open it will lead to an “Microsoft cannot open this file”-error. The solution is to change the file extension to either.xlsb (Excel binary format) or.xlb (older Excel backup format), to enable Excel to recognize the file and enable it to open. [ a big Thank You to Paul Preston for noticing this problem and for Bryan P for posting the solution on ]. ![]() AutoRecover only prompts when it was a previously SAVED version of a file. In Word2010 (I believe in 2007 as well), even if you have an UNSAVED document, and you have a computer failure (ie, power outage), there will still be a recovery file created, provided you have AutoRecover setup (see below). NOTE: If you have an UNSAVED document that was lost, you will have to manually open it, you will NOT be prompted to recover it! In XP — Navigate to: C: Documents and Settings YOUR_USER_NAME Application Data Microsoft Word In it will be a bunch of.ASD files (hopefully).
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