autorecover not working

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   while working in WED, a forced Windows updates rebooted my PC overnight.  I have a "NewItem1 (new)*" document open with unsaved changes.  but Autosave should have done a save every five minutes.  I verified autosave is selected.  
But there is no document to recover.  Lost about 8 hours of work (yes, bad on me... I was late for a baseballgame to watch Ichiro!).  The document didnt get autosaved. 

is this a know issue, or is it because WED did not officially "Crash"
thanks
Mike

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mikehmc Members Profile Find Members Posts Groupie Joined: June 17 2004 Status: Offline Points: 43	Post Options Post Reply Quote mikehmc Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: autorecover not working Posted: April 20 2017 at 4:37pm
	while working in WED, a forced Windows updates rebooted my PC overnight. I have a "NewItem1 (new)*" document open with unsaved changes. but Autosave should have done a save every five minutes. I verified autosave is selected. But there is no document to recover. Lost about 8 hours of work (yes, bad on me... I was late for a baseballgame to watch Ichiro!). The document didnt get autosaved. is this a know issue, or is it because WED did not officially "Crash" thanks Mike

PSchellenbach Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Moderator Joined: December 15 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2150	Post Options Post Reply Quote PSchellenbach Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: April 21 2017 at 10:36am
	In case it helps, the directory where wED saves the auto-recover files is: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Asent\Wed\AutoRecover I don't know why the auto-save did not work in your case, but you might look in that directory to see if there is anything left that might be useful.

mikehmc Members Profile Find Members Posts Groupie Joined: June 17 2004 Status: Offline Points: 43	Post Options Post Reply Quote mikehmc Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: April 21 2017 at 2:00pm
	thanks Pete. I do find the new 'named' rebuilding of the program there I am working on to replace the missing item. Maybe the previous doc was never saved the first time (new) so it didnt start saving it every five minutes. Oh, Well, almost have it rebuilt. made the weird analog step of actually writing all the data poiints on a pad of paper while I was in the middle of a bout of the flu... love it when a plan comes together.