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Powerpoint file disappeared, presenation in 2 hours. aaah.
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toffe
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Nov 15, 2005, 04:48 AM
 
Hi, im now sitting in school and i was working on my presenttion in microsoft powerpoint, it was completely finished and i was rehearsing timing. Then all of a sudden the file colsed, dissaperared and i can't find it again.

The file has completely wanished, spotligth doesn not even find it.
it appears in recent files, but when i try to open it from there it says that the file is gon and has been deleted....



AAAAARRGHHHH!!!!!
     
toffe  (op)
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Nov 15, 2005, 04:49 AM
 
I spent all yesterday, and this morning workiong on it.
     
toffe  (op)
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Nov 15, 2005, 04:50 AM
 
What should i tell my teacher, it's an importand course and an important presentation.
Oh, the file is gone and it can't be found.
     
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Nov 15, 2005, 04:56 AM
 
Not to be harsh, but this is a little lesson... backup! backup backup backup...
I free'd my mind... now it won't come back.
     
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Nov 15, 2005, 06:18 AM
 
Ouch that hurts good luck
     
toffe  (op)
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Nov 15, 2005, 02:04 PM
 
I rewrote it in the time left, left out the graphics though.
It was ok, it was actually a good thing that i had to panically think throug the presentation of what is important.
     
dru
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Nov 16, 2005, 12:42 AM
 
What release of PowerPoint were you using?
20" iMac C2D/2.4GHz 3GB RAM 10.6.8 (10H549)
     
Thinine
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Nov 16, 2005, 01:46 AM
 
Does PowerPoint autosave? That might have had a copy. But very strange...
     
   
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