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Tekilay
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December 9, 2013
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Recovering the unsaved changes on Adobe Reader XI file

  • December 9, 2013
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Hi There,

I have been working on one Adobe Reader XI file and I had some annotations on it but iunfortunately i closed the file without saving it. Is there any way to regain those changes?

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try67
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try67Community Expert
Community Expert
December 10, 2013

Look under Edit - Preferences - Documents. Do you have the option to auto-save the document to a temporary file every X minutes? If so, there *might* be a saved copy of it stored somewhere in the temp folders of Reader, but the chances are low.

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TekilayAuthor
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December 10, 2013

Hi Gilad,

Thanks for your response

I have just checked and i have this option was turned of for every five minutes. Then I went to the "C:\Users\D057078\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Acrobat\11.0\Security" folder and i saw two dat files exactly have the same date that i closed my file without saving. But i am not sure if those are the ones that I look for. If yes I do not know how to open dat file. Would you be able to help in these further steps?

Thanks,

Gamze.

try67
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try67Community Expert
Community Expert
December 10, 2013

Not 100% sure about this, but I think the temporary files will be located

in this folder:

C:/Users/<USERNAME>/AppData/Local/Temp/Adobe/Reader/11.0

If you see files there which are not PDF you can try to rename them as .pdf

files and then open them in Reader.

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