[mso] Accessing/Opening PowerPoint Temp Files...Possible?

                                                                           
                                      Good morning (well, maybe for some   
                                      of you but if you read this posting, 
                                      you'll see it is definitely not a    
                                      good one for me),                    
                                                                           
                                      I posted the messages below to       
                                      WinTips and Tricks last night and    
                                      this morning                         
                                      and decided to cross post them here  
                                      since it concerns a PowerPoint file. 
                                                                           
                                      If anyone has any ideas to help me   
                                      open this temp file I would be       
                                      eternally grateful.                  
                                                                           
                                      Thanks.                              
                                                                           
                                      Diane                                
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                                      Hi all,                              
                                                                           
                                      My husband spent a couple of hours   
                                      last night trying to recover this    
                                      document for me with Norton          
                                      Utilities using a feature called     
                                      something like resuce of missing or  
                                      deleted files. He was not            
                                      successful, but during the process   
                                      did find a temp file that was time   
                                      stamped only an hour before I ruined 
                                      it all. The problem is that he       
                                      couldn't find a way to open that     
                                      temp file. So that's my new          
                                      question...is there a way to open    
                                      such a file? The temp file           
                                      (filename ?PT5345.TMP)is in the same 
                                      directory as the PowerPoint file     
                                      I was working on.                    
                                                                           
                                      Thanks again for any help.           
                                                                           
                                      Diane                                
                                                                           
                                      --- In WinTips-Tricks@xxxx,          
                                      "drainaud" <drainaud@xxxx> wrote:    
                                      > I just did the most stupid thing   
                                      and am hoping someone can help me    
                                      > get out of the mess I made. After  
                                      spending 16 hours updating a         
                                      > PowerPoint training presentation,  
                                      I went to copy it onto a zip disk    
                                      > but copied in the wrong direction  
                                      overwriting the new version with     
                                      > the old one. And for some unknown  
                                      reason the backup zip disk I         
                                      made                                 
                                      > is unreadable (Murphy's Law I      
                                      guess). The last stupid thing I      
                                      > probably did was re-opening        
                                      PowerPoint out of sheer horror and   
                                      hoping                               
                                      > against hope that I would see the  
                                      new one still there.                 
                                      >                                    
                                      > Is there some version of the new   
                                      file hiding somewhere on my PC       
                                      that                                 
                                      > I might be able to access? Is      
                                      there some software I might be able  
                                      to                                   
                                      > use to help recover it?            
                                      >                                    
                                      > I'm running Windows ME and         
                                      PowerPoint 2000.                     
                                      >                                    
                                      > I'd be so grateful for any         
                                      help...this is due tomorrow in my    
                                      office.                              
                                      >                                    
                                      > Diane                              
                                                                           
                                                                           




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