Here’s the scenario. You receive an email attachment in Microsoft Outlook. You open that attachment directly from the email message, make a bunch of edits (and perhaps save them along the way) and close your Office document. Then a while later, you want to go back to that document, only to find that it does not appear in your “Recent” documents list within Word, Excel or PowerPoint. You begin to get that sinking feeling in your stomach as you start to search through your Documents folder, your Desktop and even your TEMP folders to see where the file went to. As a last resort, you fire up the file search, looking for files that were modified within the timeframe of when you were working on that document.
But your file simply cannot be found. It’s one of those “Oh sh*t” moments.
Have no fear. More likely than not, you can easily find that file. When you open an attachment from Microsoft Outlook, it opens a temporary version of that file on your hard drive. The thing is, it saves it in a very cryptic location – one that is definitely NOT intuitive, and one that seems to be unique to every user.
For example, on one of my PCs, the location is: C:\Users\michael\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\BGD62OWN\DOCNAME.docx
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