[newmacuser21]

Please help! I typed a paper and clicked file then save. I closed down my computer and just went back to open the document again and it is gone. Can I retrieve it anyway? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am obviously a new mac user and this was my first paper to type on here. Thanks in advance for any help I receive.

[Tomchu]

Pull up Spotlight and type a word or two that you know would be unique or close-to-unique for that paper.

[newmacuser21]

That didn't work. It just pulled up the webpages that I used to do the research. Wouldn't it have prompted me to save the document before I closed the application if I didn't save it correctly the first time?

[burreyeann]

Open TextEdit and under "File" select "Open Recent" and see if it's there in the list of rececently open documents.

[Macanoid]

Otherwise, download EasyFind, which allows you to search your entire computer, unlike Spotlight. You should be ablle to find it with that - it's freeware btw!