But on a mac, there are LOADS of hidden folders, including “TemporaryItems”, which is where your Outlook Temp Folder lives. If, like me, you’re a multi-platform user, you’re probably quite familiar with locating temporary files on Windows. Instead of saving it where you thought you had, you’d actually saved your document into Outlook’s temporary folder.Īll you have to do is retrieve it from the Outlook Temp folder and move it to where you wanted it in the first place.īut hold on a minute. You forgot to change the folder destination! You curse your computer and threaten it with physical violence (oh! is that just me?). Then, just as you’re about to lose the will to live and start over, it hits you. You open up your e-mail attachment, hit SAVE or SAVE AS and away you go. There you are, working merrily away, sometimes for HOURS and then POW! When you try to find the document again, it’s not in the folder you thought it was. Hmmm… thought so! It’s SO easy to do, right?
Hands up if you’ve ever saved an e-mail attachment straight from Microsoft Outlook and promptly lost it?
