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How to Recover Lost Office Files on Computer

May 24, 2016 by computerera


It would be very much frustrating if you lose any office files that you have been working on from the days or hours. If the corrupted or lost files are not recovered, it would waste a lot of your time working on the same files for the next few hours. It is now easy to recover lost office files on your computer without taking much efforts.

Is you are using the Microsoft Office to prepare your office documents, you an recover the files for some extent without using any other third party software. I’ll also be covering the recovery of office documents using the third party software and ultimate safe technique.

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MS Office 2013 and 2016 have a magical recovery feature that recover the recent changes in the documents. MS 2013 cannot recover the unsaved files but the 2016 version comes with that featured added.

1 Document Recovery

You can recover lost office files using the document recovery option in the MS Office 2016. Microsoft has added a feature that saves the unsaved documents in a temporary location as a backup. This backup can be accessed by going to Files > Manage Document > Recover Unsaved Documents.

2. Recover lost office files from temporary files

Go to file options and set the hidden files and folders option to show hidden files, folders and drives. This will show up the temporary files of the files that were not saved or lost with an extension .tmp. Find them and rename them to .Docx or .Doc based on the version of MS Office you have on your computer. When you are sure about the recovered files, revert back the setting to hie the hidden files or else your computer will look like  a trash can all unneeded information.

3. Use the Recycle bin

You might have checked the Recycle bin but might have overlooked in tension. Check the recycle bin clearly for the deleted office document files. Recycle bin can be your easy life saver.

4. Data Recovery Suite

7 Data Recovery Suite is a data recovery software that recovers the office documents, images, audio files and other type of files with a few clicks and option selections.

Watch the video tutorial of how to use the 7 Data Recovery Suite from here:

5. Always take backups

It is always take backups of the important files to the external drives. Because, Windows is not a stable operating system and it might not work the next time you boot the computer. There exist different factors for its instability but the bottom line is better not to depend on the computer to start up every time as good as last time.

If you are planning to buy an external hard disk after reading this post, consider WD Passport Ultra External Harddisk.

Hope this article helped you recover lost office files on your computer. Share this article to your friends if you like it.

Filed Under: Data Security, How to Guides, Security, Tech News Tagged With: Computer Security, Data Backup, Data Security, recovery

Android Backup Apps Before Factory Reset

April 24, 2016 by computerera

Since the days the Android has become the part of our lives, the usage and integration of the smartphones in our lives has increased. These day smartphones are coming with a lot or memory on board and support to greater amounts like 128GB and 256GB. There are even phones that support the memory expandability up to 2TB. This elevated the need of backup apps before factory reset, because a factory reset would wipe off the data in a blink.

The following are list of best backup apps for Android that are seen on Google Play.

1. App Backup & Restore

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Our phones would be installed with a lot of apps that we don’t even count. We may not remember all those app names to install later after the factory reset. This application creates the backup of all installed apps to the external SD card and allows you to restore the same.

Tip: Remove the memory card while doing a factory reset.

2. Super Backup : SMS & Contacts

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Super backup stores your backup data on to the external SD card, Google Drive and Gmail. You can backup your contacts, SMSs, bookmarks, calender entries. Set your default backup folder on to external SD card or move the entire backup folder to SD card.

Tip: As Android Marshmallow doesn’t allow to restore bookmarks from 3rd party applications, you may not get the bookmarks restored with this app. 

3. Easy Backup & Restore

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This app, as the name suggests, is the easiest backup application for android. This application offers more options to save the backup. You can save the backup to external SD card, Gmail, Google Drive, Dropbox, OnceDrive and Box. Along with contacts, SMS, MMS, calender entries, bookmarks, call logs, apps, this application also saves dictionary entries that we have saved while typing.

4. CM Backup – Safe,Cloud,Speedy

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CM backup is the most loved backup and restore application for android users. Rated 4.7/5, CM Backup rules the backup and restore operations on 100 million android devices. This app features, Contacts backup & restore (Avatars, birthdays etc.), Messages backup & restore (SMS, MMS, text messages and Hangouts), Call logs backup & restore (Phone only), Photos backup & restore, Web Browser Bookmarks backup & restore, Calendars backup & restore, Alarms backup & restore, Dictionary backup & restore (Input methods)

5. G Cloud Backup

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G Cloud Backup helps you backup your contacts, photos, videos and calender entries from phone to phone irrespective of its operating system. Files backed up using this application can be restored on to any other device with this application installed.

6. SMS Backup & Restore

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Any important message lost could be a loss for you. SMS Backup & Restore is a dedicated app that backsup all the messages and call logs from the android phone and restores them after factory reset. This app hae the aerage rating of 4.5/5 with 50,000,000 installations so far.

7. Titanium Backup

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Titanium Backup backs up the data, apps and market links on to the SD card. But, you need to have your phone rooted for this. This application is the top backup root app with a lot of options available.

Tip: Don’t risk to root your phone unless it is needed at most.

These backup apps are chosen based on their rating about their functionalities. These will give you better features and options to secure your data.

Filed Under: Data Security, gadgets, Security Tagged With: Data Backup, Data Security, security

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