Lost Word file after Zotero installation

goldzim
I installed Zotero into Word (2011 for Mac), after which all my open Word files came back after it reopened. However, the one I had done days of work on (and, of course, not saved) came back without all the changes I had made -- despite having auto-recover supposedly saving every 5 minutes. (I had opened the original document from an email - and then, stupidly, not saved it as I worked on it.)

Did something about the Zotero installation erase the changes I had made to the document and also erase whatever temporary/autorecover/autosave files were supposed to have been saved?

Please help if you can.
  • aurimas
    Did something about the Zotero installation erase the changes I had made to the document and also erase whatever temporary/autorecover/autosave files were supposed to have been saved?
    There's nothing about Zotero Word add-on that would be able to do this. Whatever happened was due to Word's behavior.

    Your document may still be somewhere (maybe you saved it to the temporary location that it was opened from), but I have no idea where it would be on a Mac.
  • DWL-SDCA
    You should try a Spotlight search using an uncommon phrase from the missing 'lost' document. Spotlight will find all versions of the document. Be sure to set the search scope to include everything not just your document directory.

    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2531

    Mac's TimeMachine makes it so easy to recover from this sort of thing. The only thing you need is an external drive and suitable connector cables.

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