Auto-saved file

Question

Yesterday, my computer rebooted while I was away. Upon reopening Studio, I was not prompted to open an auto-saved file. There is nothing in the auto-save folder. Is there any other place where I can find this auto-saved folder that was probably deleted after the reboot, like in a temp folder or something? In addition, I can't just repopulate my translation from the TM, because there is nothing in the TM! Upon further inspection, there is nothing in ANY of my TMs. So I really need this auto-saved file. I lost 6 hours of work. I have of course learned that I should manually save from here on in, and I sent a support ticket for my TM problem which I believe is an installation issue, but until then, I would like to recover the lost work. What's the point of the auto-save feature if it doesn't protect you from a crash or reboot? Please tell me where I can find the deleted auto-saved file that I know should have existed because I could see the auto-save function operating while I was working. Thank you for any help! 
 Jennifer

Paul Filkin · Answer

Hi Jennifer, 
 Unknown said: I have of course learned that I should manually save from here on in 
 I hope you also learned you should work into your TM and then you can always recover it whether you saved the file or not. On the recovery... if it's not in the autosave folder then it may be in a temp folder somewhere but finding it could be tricky as it'll have a very random and long name and probably won't have the sdlxliff extension. You could try searching inside the text of your files in the temp folder for something like this: 
 xliff xmlns:sdl="http://sdl.com/FileTypes/SdlXliff 
 You might get lucky. 
 Regards 
 Paul

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