What is ASD or.asd file? Before you know about ASD file, have knowledge of AutoRecover feature provided in Microsoft Word program. AutoRecover is an inbuilt option provided in Microsoft Office suite, which pull the plug on data loss due to unexpected interruptions like power surge, generation of errors, application halt/crash, abrupt system. Although both.asd and.word file are related to Microsoft Word (Mac version), it seems unlikely the latest versions of Word is still capable of working with them, or perhaps offer asd to word conversion. If your word file is closed incorrectly, then you can recover that file without following the reason for panic. Recover Unsaved Word Documents With ‘.ASD’ File: Microsoft has created ASD files with Microsoft Word files. When you are working on a Word document, the backend is being backed up in an ASD file. A quick solution. To quickly find «Word autosave location on Windows 10», use a. An ASD file is a temporary backup created by Microsoft Word, a word processing program used to author documents. It contains a snapshot copy of the currently opened Word document. It is used for automatic backup and recovery of documents in Word in case of an unplanned disruption or program crash.
How to open Auto Recover file location to recover the lost word document?
The feature of AutoRecover will automatically save your working document in every specified minute, if you have enabled this feature in your Word. How to quickly access the AutoRecover file location when you need to recover the lost document in Word? This tutorial will introduce two methods to open the AutoRecover file location to recover the lost word document.
Open Auto Recover file location to recover the lost word document in Word Options
This method will guild you to find out the Auto Recover file location from Word Options, and then recover files with the Auto Recover file location easily in Word.
1. Click File > Options to open the Word Options dialog box.
2. In the opening Word Options dialog box, please click Save in left bar, copy the folder path from the Auto Recover file location box, and then close the Word Options. See screenshot:
3. Go ahead to click File > Open >Browse.
4. In the Open dialog box, please (1) press Ctrl + V keys together to paste the AutoRecover file location into the Address box, and press Enter key; (2) select All Files from the drop down list right to the File name box, and then (3) double click to open the specified folder that probably contains recovered file. See screenshot:
5. In the opening AutoRecover file folder, please select the specified ASD file of lost word document, and click the Open button. See screenshot:
Notes:
(1) If the document is new and never been saved, the file name will be something like “AutoRecovery save of Document 1.asd';
(2) If the document was already manually saved, but you lost intervening work between saves, it will have the name of the saved document (e.g, “Autocovery save of Remove indents.asd“).
Open AutoRecover file location to recover the lost word document with Kutools for Word
The method above requires a few steps to open AutoRecover file location to recover the lost word document, but with Kutools for Word, you can open the AutoRecover file location to recover the lost word document easily and quickly.
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2. Now the Recoverylocation is opening. Please double click to open the AutoRecover folder that probably contains lost file, and then in the subfolder double click to open the the specified ASD file of lost word document. See screenshot:
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.I still cannot find auto recovery under save docs
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Do you mean there is no files under the AutoRecover folder? Actually, if you Word document is closed by accident without saving, you will get the recovery version in the Document Recovery pane, when you open the document next time.
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thank you, after reading other suggestions which didn't work and were difficult to follow, this one did the trick, it was easy to comprehend and apply. It allowed me to recover 2 hours of hard work!!!
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Hi, i have a corrupt .doc file that i can not repair. A friend recommended me WordFIX but i don't know anything about the software. What do you think? What software should I use?
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thank you sooo much, for helping me recover my work.
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I came down this morning to find several days work gone and I was so mad at Microsoft I nearly through my laptop out the window! - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.auto recover file location not available how can find it
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excel file suddenly closed and it not shoe recover option but recover is enable only how can i find the recover file - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.My battery died before I could save my document. When booting up, MS ran updated. I opened the autorecovery folder, NOTHING. No files there. Auto recover was ON and marked to happen every 10 min before I started with the document. Please assist
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thank you!! It worked!!!
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.I was using an old document and typing over it. I had been using it for hours, when the laptop decided it needed to do a restart. The old document opened but all the over typing I had done was not saved. This has not worked for me.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.OMG! You're a LIFE-SAVER!!! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.And let me add... when you do get to the autorecovery location, it may help to organize files by date, with the newest first... that way, the file you're looking for will probably be the first on the list... Just a tip.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks... you helped me save 12 pages of work! You're a genius!!!!!
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Please help I searched for my .asd but it is showing to be 0 bytes and after opening its blank,i am not able to recove my changed contents of document,please help
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when I follow your guide my recovery filr does not open with word !! what can I do ?- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.If Word won't recover the autosaved file, do this:
1. Make a copy of the .asd file
2. Rename the file and change .asd to .doc
(If a dialogue box appears, warning that changing a filename extension might cause the file to become unusable, and you are asked if you are sure you want to change it, click 'Yes')
3. Open the file with Word and save it with a more meaningful filename.
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Just saved 2 hours of work. I have no idea what happen Kernel Recovery for Word Tool to restore damage Word file which is resolve all corruption problem of Word file. - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Hi. I'm having problem about one file that I made.
My desktop restarted all of a sudden so when I opened it again, along the left side of the word 2007 window was the autorecovery files. I clicked on it and saved the file.
So I continued my work and finished it and clicked save. When I tried to open it, it's not even in the folder where I had it saved.
I tried doing the word options trick but I still can't find it. I tried to search .asd files and found it but it says it has been moved. Now I have no idea where to find it.
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Your explanation was simple and effective. - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thanks you very much..I had almost panic'ed...
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In a previous post I discussed how to open a Word autorecover file with .asd extension with Word 2010, from comments in there arose a need to open ASD files in Word 2007.
I managed to open .ASD files in Word 2007 like this:
- Open Word 2007 and create a new document
- Click Word button -> Word Options -> Save
- See where your AutoRecover file location points to, mine was C:UsersusernameAppDataRoamingMicrosoftWord
- Copy paste the .asd file to that folder (if it already isn’t)
- Open the Open dialog, select “All files” on the bottom right corner and navigate to the folder you located in point 3.
- Select the .asd file, cross your fingers and click Open to open it.
It seems that Word only opens your .ASD from your AutoRecover file location, try to open it with Word from your Desktop and get the “cannot open this file because it is an unsupported file type“.
I tested it many ways, including drag-drop into Word and it seems that Word doesn’t want to open the .ASD from your desktop, C: drive or elsewhere, only from your AutoRecover file location folder.
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Alternative method to open ASD file:
1. Place a copy the .asd file into the unsaved files folder C:Users%username%AppDataLocalMicrosoftOfficeUnsavedFiles
2. Open Word and click on File – Recent
Asd Video File
3. Looking down the bottom of the screen you see a button/box titled “Recover Unsaved Documents”
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4. Click that button/box and open the .asd file you placed in the unsaved files folder in Step 1.
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