recovering data from textedit

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  1. ches, Aug 25, 2008

    ches macrumors newbie

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    Sometime in the past 10 mins, textedit crashed and reloaded (without me knowing) and autorecovery did not work - i lost like 10 unsaved documents

    i have NO IDEA what happened

    Is there some way, simple or complicated of recovering those temporary files?
     
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  2. KingRocky, Aug 25, 2008

    KingRocky macrumors member

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    Let me get this straight: You had TEN OPEN UNSAVED DOCUMENTS? :confused:

    There's no way that I know of to recover the data. Maybe on ONE document, but not ten.

    What would you have done if there was a sudden power outage?

    Save Early, Save Often!
     
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  3. HLdan, Aug 25, 2008

    HLdan macrumors 603

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    The autosave feature in TextEdit only works on previously created documents. If you open a TextEdit document and start typing something new it will autosave in 30 seconds by default, in the event of TextEdit unexpectedly quitting your document will be saved to the desktop. This will not work on stuff you haven't saved. Sorry.
     
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  4. harrisolym, Aug 25, 2008

    harrisolym macrumors newbie

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    maybe you can't fine it again,
    HLdan, your signature said what I want to say, :)
     
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  5. HLdan, Aug 25, 2008

    HLdan macrumors 603

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    LOL, somebody likes my sig.:D
     
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