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Word document not saving changes
My girlfriend uses company Macbook for school related work as well. And today she was just working in one of the word document in desktop application, adding new text and continously saving the changes made. But suddenly, when she have just opened the document again tonight, all the change she made in the morning today are not present in the word document and the document says, that last change was made the day before.
Is there a way to recover this lost progress, while not having autosave on? And could this be caused by some issues related to updating the Office software? As she kept receiving an error, when she tried to open the document, something like "User doesn't have privilige to open this File" despite giving the access. She proceed to restart the Mac and then this message disappeared and she was able to open the word document, but then the initial problem, discribed above appeard.
Thank you,
David
4 Replies
- If the document was being saved to a folder that is synchronized with OneDrive, right click on the file in OneDrive and then on Version History and see if one of the earlier versions contains the recent edits.
See https://appuals.com/office-2016-grant-access-error-on-macos/Hi Doug
My doc is connecteed to a folder synchronized with OneDrive, but when I accessed my OnDrive I saw only one very old version.
When I save a copy then re-open it, the margins are different, words that were bolded are no longer bolded and page breaks are have vanished...just to name a few. This is driving me nuts...how do I prevent this from happening?
-Mark
MarkWord I would go to File>Options>Save and check the box for "Save to Computer by default" and then set the "Default local file location" to a folder that is NOT synchronized with OneDrive.
If you want something on OneDrive so that you can access it from another computer, use the Upload facility to upload it.
I only use OneDrive and remote storage location. I never use OneDrive to synchronize documents on which I am working.
- Unfortunately it wasn't synchronized with Onedrive.
