Whether your Mac crashed or froze, you forgot to save, or you accidentally clicked on delete, all might not be lost. We'll show you how you can recover that vanished Word document. AutoSave is a different feature which automatically saves your file as you work - just like if you save the file manually - so that you don't have to worry about saving on the go. On the Mac, AutoSave is available in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint for Office 365 for Mac subscribers. When AutoSave is turned on AutoRecover files are rarely needed.

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Summary

When a Word document got lost without saving by clicking Don't Save without awareness, you may risk a file loss on Mac. You can follow solutions here and restore 'unsaved' lost Word files on Mac from the Temporary or AutoRecovery folder. And as for lost Word file recovery, professional Mac file recovery software - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard can easily help.

This page presents two practical methods and one reliable Mac file recovery software that can help you bring unsaved or deleted, lost Word document on Mac with ease. If you happen to lose Word document on Mac, check out the exact fix and bring it back on your own.

Overview

Problem - Accidentally click Don't Save in MS Word 2016 Apa style microsoft word mac.

'I accidentally clicked 'Don't Save' while closing a document in MS Word 2016 on my Macbook. It makes me lost several pages of work. Is it possible to get it back?'

'Can I recover a file after I accidentally click Don't Save in MS Word?'

Solution - The issue mentioned above has happened to more than one users. And the solutions are various.

If you are one of those people who want to know how to recover unsaved Word document on Mac, follow on and you will find several possible ways for lost Word file recovery by clicking 'Don't Save', deleting, etc.

Solutions

We collected two major solutions and a bonus trick here to help and find lost Word file on Mac. Follow on and restore your lost Mac Word file immediately.

Recover unsaved Word document from AutoRecovery files

MS Office automatically creates backup copies of the Word, Excel, PPT etc files that you're working automatically. And these files are saved every 10 or 5 minutes.

• If you click Save while closing the document, Word will record the file(s) with all the changes you have made. The next time when Word starts up, you'll be able to easily view and open it at the 'Recent' column.

• And if you accidentally click 'Don't Save' while closing a Word document, Word will not recover the file automatically. Office Word will take it as that you don't want to keep the file or save all the changes.

In this case, you can try to recover lost Word document without saving from AutoRcovery folder manually:

Step 1: Go to Finder, then click 'Go', then Go to Folder

Step 2: Type in the following: ~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word/Data/Library/Preferences/AutoRecovery and click 'Go'.

Step 3: Check the AutoRecovery Folder.

Step 4: If you find the saved file named as AutoRecovery***, marked with other extensions, open it with Word.

You'll be able to view your lost Word file, then save it on Mac Desktop.

Find lost Word file in TemporaryItems folder

Mac also has a feature that it contains a TemporaryItems folder which saves all temporary files of Word, Excel, PPT and other files. It may contain your lost Word document with a TMP format.

Step 1: Go to Applications> Utilities > Terminal.

Step 2: Once in Terminal, enter the following command and then press enter: open $TMPDIR.

Step 3: You have now opened your TMP folder, open the folder named TemporaryItems.

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If you're lucky, your document should be there! Sometimes a temporary file of your lost Word doesn't show up in the TemporaryItem or AutoRecovery folder, a bonus tip is to use professional Mac data recovery software to scan and find them on your Mac hard drive.

If the above two solutions fail to find your lost Word file, you can go to Microsoft and find a cool answer of recovering unsaved Word document on Mac: https://support.office.com/en-us/.

Bonus Trick: Find temp files or recover lost/deleted Word with Mac data recovery software

If you lost Word documents or other items, files on your Mac computer due to deletion, emptying the Trash, formatting, etc, you can partially restore them from the Trash. But if the Trash doesn't contain the lost files, Mac data recovery software is the best choice.

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Here, we'd like to recommend a try-before-buy tool - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac which scans the Mac drive, finding missing temp files of Word 2016 and your lost data, and retrieves your lost Word documents, Office Excel files, music, photos, videos, etc.

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You don't need to pay before it actually finding and you deciding to retrieve your lost Word or other files. Feel free to download the trial version and give it a try:

Step 1. Select the location where your important Word documents were lost and click Scan button.

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Step 2. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac will start immediately a quick scan as well as a deep scan on your selected disk volume. Meanwhile, the scanning results will be presented in the left pane.

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Step 3. By Path and Type, you can quickly filter the Word files you've lost earlier. Select the target files and click Recover Now button to get them back at once.