Word: paper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reluctantly you return to choice one and quit. You are officially a loser as you watch your paper disappear from the screen. Of course, in your haste you had not saved it. And you call yourself a Harvard student...
...this a familiar scene? Are you getting teary-eyed with the thought of that last tutorial paper you lost? Well stop your crying because there's good news...
...this does not happen automatically, you can look for certain files that have recent copies of your paper in them...
...find which temp file has your paper, use the find program to search for files ending in "tmp" or files whose date matches that of the programerror...
...list, try to open the files from Word, and see what you come up with. Because the files are temporary, they often have a lot of random-looking junk in them. If you see this, try scrolling down some, and you should be able to get most of your paper back...