File that I downloaded and registered is now gone.

Yesterday I uploaded a word document. When I was prompted to save or open, I chose to just open it. I made some changes to the word document and then clicked on "Save". Today, I was looking for the word document, but could not find. When I open the download of Firefox menu, the possibility to open or open the containing folder is grayed out.

I am very confused by the fact that when I clicked 'save' in Word format yesterday when I finished editing the document, MS Word saved the file. Normally, when I 'open' a document word directly from Firefox (as opposed to save it to a specific location), if I edit the document and then click on 'save', MS Word will direct me to the menu "save under" where I choose a folder to save the document in. This time, MS Word saved the file as if it were a file that I had downloaded. So I had no idea that the file wasn't somewhere safe (probably was in a temporary download folder).

The changes I made to the document are extremely important and I am very very disappointed that I lost the file. Is there anywhere, it might be? How can I prevent this from happening in the future (other than to save the file directly from Firefox)?

Thank you

When you choose 'Open' in a download dialog window, the file is found in the temp folder. Once Firefox is closed, the file is deleted. The option 'Open containing folder' is greyed out because the file no longer exists. You can check he left trying to open it from the word of the recently opened files list.

You can try an undelete utility to retrieve the file.

In the future, if you want to keep a file, choose Save when prompted by Firefox, or choose Save as or save the copy slot after you have opened in the associated application.

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