[Nobody]

I unplugged my comp. with text edit open-- closed the machine to put it to sleep. When I went to open it (with an almost fully charged battery) the screen was blank, and I had to use mains power. It started ok, but all my new text edit files were lost- a lot of work= I would be very grateful if there was some program I could buy to get my work back. Are they still somewhere on my disc, or lost for good? The text edit program was really full- up until it's been perfect
IS THERE A DATA RECOVERY PROGRAM THAT WILL WORK? THANK YOU

[DPG4450Guy]

Is your hard drive partitioned?
Did you save the files to your desktop?
Do you have Norton Utilities or DiskWarrior or TechToolPro4 ?
By the way, what does "the TextEdit program was really full" mean? /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[Nobody]

No, hard drive not partitioned, No files not saved to desk top. No I don't have disc warrior or the other one. What I wanted to ask was does disc warrior retrieve these kind of files? ie should I buy it or the other one? I had about ... well over 30 files open, all with lots of text. It's never done this before. Obviously I won't do it again, but my question is can I get them back? thank you

[d00d]

I'm not sure that TextEdit writes out any temp files (a la Word). I think it might store everything in memory, in which case if you didn't save the files, they are gone forever.

[Grant_G]

I'm sure you've heard the old expression, "save early, save often." Sorry, but I have to agree with d00d that if you weren't saving these files as you worked on them, they're gone. By not saving, everything was stored either in RAM or volatile memory, aka virtual memory. That's wiped clean wherever the machine is shutdown or restarted.
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