I’m pretty meticulous about my IT procedures, and luckily I’ve never had a major IT catastrophe. But here’s a minor IT annoyance that has heretofore sucked up an inordinate amount of my time: unsaved Gmail attachments. And now, there’s a solution!
As I’ve written about before, I use Gmail with my own domain name, to take advantage of the Gmail features without having to use a Gmail address for work. I’m not sure if this oddity is specific to Gmail, but here we go: if someone sends you a Word document as an attachment and it’s in .doc format (i.e. pre-Word 2007), Gmail will not open the document directly, and forces you to save it…so this issue does not occur. But if someone sends you a Word document as an attachment and it’s in .docx format (i.e. Word 2007 or later), Gmail gives you the option to either open the document or save it, and I most often just go ahead and open the attachment so that I can read it right away. More.
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To find the file, you can just do a search on the whole system drive (with hidden folders and files visible) using *.docx and modification date, then right-click on the results and select “Open file location”.
E.g. with Outlook on Win7, files are in C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\
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To find the file, you can just do a search on the whole system drive (with hidden folders and files visible) using *.docx and modification date, then right-click on the results and select “Open file location”.
E.g. with Outlook on Win7, files are in C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\
@Morgane: i’d recommend saving the attachment directly from the browser or e-mail client software, and not open it then “save it as”. ▲ Collapse
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