How To Recover Your PowerPoint Presentation When You Quit without Saving?

Always try to save your document, slide show when working with any Microsoft office product because you can’t take a risk if your system might experience some type of system failure. If unfortunately you forgot to save the changes done in your  PowerPoint presentation, Microsoft still has built-in with feature  of an automatic recovery tool, which saves temporary versions of your files even if you did not save it.

The feature of AutoRecover, which is enabled by default, works automatically upon restarting PowerPoint, allowing you to retrieve your unsaved work. If suddenly power goes off or your system stop working, the AutoRecover feature may be able to recover your task automatically the next time when you start PowerPoint. If by mistake you leave PowerPoint document without saving your presentation then also there is the possibility of recovery of your work, even though the temporary copy has been deleted.

AutoRecover saves the information of presentation with which you are working, in the PPTnnnn.tmp file where “nnnn” represents random numbers that are generated by PowerPoint automatically. When you save your presentation, the PPTnnnn.tmp file is deleted. If you close the file without saving the changes then also the PPTnnnn.tmp file is deleted.

You can recover the PPTnnnn.tmp file if no other data has been made to the hard drive. However, if the PPTnnnn.tmp file is recovered, there is no guarantee that it is a good copy of your presentation. To recover the temp file, follow these steps:

1. Click Start button on your windows screen, go to Search option, and then click For Files or Folders.
2. In the Search Results dialog box, under Search for files or folder type ppt*.tmp, and then click Search Now.
3. If you find file that matches the search criteria then make a right-click to the file, and then click “Rename” option. You can give any name to the file, but the extension must be  “.ppt”.
4. To open the renamed file in PowerPoint makes a double click on it. If it is the file that you want to recover then click Save As option on the File menu, select the folder where you want to save it, and then hit to the “Save” option.

NOTE: If you receive any error message while attempting to open the file, then it’s clear that presentation cannot be recovered with this method.

Other option to get the unsaved file back is by finding the Temporary Files

Whenever you work with new file a temporary file is also created with that. This can be either in the windows temp directory, in “C:\ Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Microsoft”. If the file is saved on a network drive then it temporarily created there.

In the name of the temporary file squiggly line “~” follows by the letters. These are perfect way for finding some lost info. There are so many others way to get back the recovered ones but these are the ones most likely to contain data.

Finding and using the temporary files

If you are searching the temp files for PowerPoint then the naming convention is pptxxx.tmp (where xxxx is a number) and they are saved by default in “C :\ Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Temp” or on Windows 7/Vista. “C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp”.

 How to recover unsaved data of PowerPoint?

When the unsaved PowerPoint presentations are not recovered using the options available within the MS PowerPoint application then you should use the PowerPoint Repair Tool. By using this utility, the users can get access to the presentation that somehow was left unsaved.It can repair the corrupt PPS, PPTX, PPT files and can also recover images, text, sound effect, OLE objects, animations etc. With the help of this repair tool you can restore any type of issues like header & charts, tables, footer corruption, WordArt objects. It is well efficient to repair file on any MS PowerPoint version such as 2000, 2003, 20007 & 2010.

 It facilitates the users to repair files either one by one by using Single File mode or by recovering multiple files at a time by using Multi File Mode. After recovery, the software displays a preview of the recovered presentation also.

Steps to Recover Your PowerPoint Presentation When You Quit without Saving

Step 1: Firstly you need to download and install PPT Repair Tool. You will get the following interface as shown below

Step 2: Then you need to choose the PPT file that you need to repair

Step 3: Then you need to choose the ppt file click on ‘Repair’ button to recover the corrupt or damaged file.

Step 4: Then after start the reparing process that gets completed the software will preview the recovered file.

Step 5: Then you need to click on the ‘Save’ dialog box which appears on the interface click on ‘Save’ button to save the file in your desired location.

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