Recovery after a Microsoft Word crash with Word's AutoRecovery

AutoRecovery as such is not supported by the ITP/MDK Repository. It is however possible to recover at least your changes by using the recovered document and the Compare to Local File function of the ITP/MDK Repository. To get the recovered text in the ITP/MDK Repository follow the procedure as described below. We start when Microsoft Word has crashed and you need to start again:

1. Start the ITP/MDK Repository, if it is not already running.
2. Start Microsoft Word.

   Microsoft Word starts with a (Recovered) version of the file you were editing. The problem is that you cannot save this file to the ITP/MDK Repository.

3. Save this recovered file to your file system. For instance to C:\temp\recover
4. Go back to the ITP/MDK Repository and select the [in development] revision of the crashed document and choose Compare to local file… in the Edit menu.

   The ITP/MDK Repository will compare the recovered version with its own version and show the differences.

5. The differences identified can be copy/pasted into the ITP/MDK Repository version of the document.
6. Double click the document you were editing before the crash in the ITP/MDK Repository.

   The ITP/Model Development Kit starts, showing the document's [in development] revision.

There is another way; importing the saved recovered file. There are two big drawbacks to this approach. First, it will create a revision whereas in the procedure above you edit the existing [in development] revision. Second, the Recovery mechanism Microsoft Word is far from perfect and can play havoc with ITP encoded texts.

Note

We do not recommend that you import a recovered document.