How to Recover Unsaved Word Document on OS X?

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Can anyone tell me how to recover an unsaved Word document on OS X 10.8.4 using Office 2011? Thanks in advance!

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If you didn’t click the Don’t Save button or the file was unsaved due to a sudden power outage or app crashing, you can still find the unsaved Word document in the following directories:

Open Finder, click Go > Go to Folder, and search for one of the following paths:

~/Users/“username”/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word/Data/Documents (replace username)

Office 2016:
~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word/Data/Library/Preferences/AutoRecovery/

Older Microsoft Office versions:
/Users/user-name/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Office 2011 AutoRecovery

After finding the unsaved Word document, rename the file extension to .docx before opening it.

For more information, check out this guide: Recover Unsaved Word Document on Mac

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To find the unsaved Word document on OS X:

  1. Open Terminal.
  2. Type open $TMPDIR in Terminal and hit Enter.
  3. Open the folder com.microsoft.Word.
  4. Look for the Word document that looks like your file, which may be a .asd file.
  5. Open it and then copy the content somewhere else.
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You might also want to check the Temporaryitems folder.

  1. In Terminal, run open $TMPDIR.
  2. Open the folder named Temporaryitems.
  3. Check if the unsaved Word document is inside.
  4. If it is, open it with TextEdit.
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I went into the documents where the file was, right-clicked it, and opened it with TextEdit. Went into File, then Revert to, then Browse All Versions. This opens a new page with the current version on the left and all other previous versions on the right.