Effective methods of recovering Word autosave files

[Anthony_Campbell]

My wife was working on her computer yesterday and had added 1200 words or so to her file in Microsoft Word 2010 (OS is Win 8) - she believes she had saved the file however the next day all her changes were gone.
I have attempted to find autosave files or recover unsaved documents - have tried a number of different methods for locating the files but to no success.
I have tried running recuva including a deep scan which has also not found anything.

Does anyone have any other recommended solutions?

[veeg]

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[Anthony_Campbell]

Thanks, will keep an eye on the thread

[plodr]

First check that autosave is turned on. If so, look at the frequency of how often it is saved.
Tip: Change AutoRecovery Frequency in Word 2010 to Avoid Disasters
We use older versions of Office and my husband types a lot. He got into the habit years ago of pressing ctrl + S every few minutes to simply save what he is working on.

Finally here are places to look

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/316951/how-to-recover-a-lost-word-document

[phillpower2]

Any update Anthony Campbell?

[phillpower2]

Any update Anthony Campbell? If unreplied to within 48hrs this thread will be closed.