where are the auto saved files for office 2016 for mac?

Anonymous
2015-03-10T02:57:37+00:00

I had autorecoveron (by default) and the app crashed (ironically when i tried to do a normal save). is there a chance i can get my file back and if so where?

this was a powerpoint presentation.

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Anonymous
2015-03-10T09:20:15+00:00

thanks for your reply.

I actually found my file - for reference it was at 

HD > Users > [my user name] > Library > Containers > com.microsoft.Powerpoint > Data > Library > Preferences > AutoRecovery > Presentation1_autorecover

but powerpoint wouldn't detect it upon restart, it wouldn't show up in spotlight etc. (I found it with a program called "find my file")

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Anonymous
2015-09-23T20:41:09+00:00

I had to rename the autosave file with a '.pptm' extension before PowerPoint would open it.

It appears the autosave has a content type of "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.main+xml" instead of "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation.main+xml" which is typical for a pptx file.

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Anonymous
2015-03-13T22:04:01+00:00

I guess there's confusion over what type of file you were working on. If it was a Word document then everything in the path is the same except replace the word "PowerPoint" for "Word" and see if anything is in that folder.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-10-26T04:43:36+00:00

    Microsoft Word for Mac v. 15.14 on Mac OS X El Capitan double crashed and the recovery file got deleted the second time. Lost 8 hours of work today but found a recovery file here as prescribed:

    HD > Users > [my user name] > Library > Containers > com.microsoft.Powerpoint > Data > Library > Preferences > AutoRecovery > Presentation1_autorecover

    Unfortunately trying to open it yields a blank document but it is strange because the info all seems to be there it just doesn't display. I can see the highlighted patterns and there's a word count but it doesn't display !??!?!?

    Any suggestions on what to do... I've tried renaming to .doc from .docx to no avail. I'm not sure what this content type thing is but it looks promising.

    Any body have any ideas?

    In the mean time don't upgrade to El Capitan or Mac 15.15. It's still obviously got some major kinks to work out.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-10-23T15:44:28+00:00

    If you don't see a container folder can you tell me what version of Office you are running and what is your OS X version?

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