[Ham-Computers] Microsoft Office File Names & path or location question

WA5CAB at cs.com WA5CAB at cs.com
Tue Feb 7 19:38:49 EST 2017


Background (i.e., why):  My wife's computer, a four or five year old Intel 
machine with Windows 8 as an OS. IE 10 upgrade installed and Microsoft 
Office Home and Business 2010 installed and with a single hard drive (partitioned 
as C: and D:) suffered a hard drive failure.  Drive was not being backed up 
to a separate device (my fault).  I paid a commercial data recovery outfit 
to try to recover files on the hard drive (both partitions).  They were 
partially successful.

She was/is interested in recovering some MS Word files, the IE Favorites, 
and email file(s), contacts, schedules and address book.  I once knew where 
at least most of those files were located in a default installation and what 
their file names were.  But I have slept several thousand times since I last 
had to do anything similar.

Can anyone tell me the path to and file names of any of the above?  I 
realize that in the case of the MS Word files, both the file names and their 
location is or can be optional and probably have a .DOCX extension.  But at 
least the default folder path/name would probably be helpful.

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480


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