BTW: this can also occur when you open an attachment in an Outlook email. Outlook will make a copy of the attachment in a temp OLKWSY5G (gibberish) folder. ANY work and save on that file will be saved to THAT folder.
This happens even if you open and edit and save an attached file before sending it. The file attached to an email is NOT opened. Outlook makes a copy and works on that one.
Generally speaking, you should always save an attached file, and then open that one.
For our organization we actually disable the ability to open attachments from email. They must be saved to be able to open them.
As Tony mentions, it may be possible to find the file, but it is iffy.
Windows/IE/Outlook - all of them do not do a very good job of cleaning up after themselves. Look at Windows and all those .tmp files. All those ~whatever files. Those OLKxxxx folders
may hang around, and they may not. Like the Temporary Internet Files that may have your file - it may be there, it may not be there.
On my own machine I periodically go and check and clean up. As Outlook makes real file copies (NOT pointers) some of these OLKxxxx folders can get filled with crap.
We had one user who had 6 Gb of files in her OLKxxxx folders. She always opened her attachments directly from the email message. After doing a study it was determined to change policy - no opening of email attachments. It is disabled by policy. Users hate it, and I admit it can be a pain in the butt, but...there ya go.
I believe later vesion of Outlook/Exchange have fixed this. I think.
Gerry
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