I have auto recovery set for every 5 minutes.  I have been working on a file that has been saved several times a day.  Today when just moving a shape Viso 2010 crashed after I had been working on the file for over 2 hours.  Auto recovery popped up every 5 minutes indicating it was saving the file.  After the crash the ony file I could find was the file as it was when I first opened it this AM.  None of the work done today was saved. 

Did auto recovery completely fail?  Where can I look for the auto recovery file? 

I have not done a reboot because I am afraid that if the file exits it will be gone for sure if I reboot.  Any suggestions are welcome.

There must be a temp file or something that I can look for but not sure what the extension would be or the location.

Hopefully someone here can help.

thanks,

greg

Have a look in

C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Visio

you will see a file called

AutoRecover11.ini

Look at this file with Notepad or similar, it will contain the names of the current files handled by autorecover.

To see the files in Explorer etc you'll need to make system files visible.

Have a look in

C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Visio

you will see a file called

AutoRecover11.ini

Look at this file with Notepad or similar, it will contain the names of the current files handled by autorecover.

To see the files in Explorer etc you'll need to make system files visible.

were you able to find the AppData directory? Normally that's one of the hidden ones that has to be turned on explicitly under Folder options to be visible. In any case it shows up on mine.

al

were you able to find the AppData directory? Normally that's one of the hidden ones that has to be turned on explicitly under Folder options to be visible. In any case it shows up on mine.

al

You might be better off finding out what causes the crashes, Visio 2010 should be very stable. What are you doing when the crash occurs?

It also appears that you have the default save format set to XML, might be worth changing to Visio format to see if that makes a difference. The auto-save XML files might very well be stored somewhere different.

You might be better off finding out what causes the crashes, Visio 2010 should be very stable. What are you doing when the crash occurs?

It also appears that you have the default save format set to XML, might be worth changing to Visio format to see if that makes a difference. The auto-save XML files might very well be stored somewhere different.

How do I know? You state the the auto-save file extension is .vxd - that's the Visio document XML format.

You can change this in File -> Options -> Save

As for the crashes, are there any messages when a crash occurs?

Check that the video drivers you have are the latest, try a different screen resolution to see if that changes anything and turn off or change any screen accelerators.

How do I know? You state the the auto-save file extension is .vxd - that's the Visio document XML format.

You can change this in File -> Options -> Save

As for the crashes, are there any messages when a crash occurs?

Check that the video drivers you have are the latest, try a different screen resolution to see if that changes anything and turn off or change any screen accelerators.

That info may give someone a chance to tell you what is causing the crash.

I followed the instructions here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio-help/my-office-program-did-not-open-a-recovered-file-HA010157885.aspx#BM13 where it advises to enter in the file > open dialog "%temp%\*.vsd".  This yielded all my autosave files (Visio 2010).

My temp files get placed in one of the two following directories

C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Temp\

C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Temp\1\

OK, thought I'd quickly write this up.

I'd spent weeks saving a Visio file to a USB drive when it corrupted, code 128 when trying to open the file.

I used a program called GetDataBack, and recovered deleted files.

In the lost file folder was a file that ended strangely with a .doc, but on opening with word I recognised some of the texts. So I changed the extension to .vsd and opened in Visio. It actually was the file I wanted. Amazing

I dont know, maybe this will help someone...

Kev