I have made a very big mistake. I wonder if any one has a tip, apart from not eating yellow snow.

I sent myself a file (filemaker 8). I opened the email up and saved the file to my desktop. I worked on the file for 5 hours and closed it, not realising I had'nt gone into the file that was on my my desktop. Nightmare. Usually you cannot modify the file unless you save it and then open it from the saved location.. I presume not but does anyone know if I can somehow retrieve this file? I am almost considering it as a lost hope... A big mistake to make.

I'm not sure what you are having happen here, but I do Know that when you get files from email, the Read only sometimes replaces the Read Write, at the finder level.

If that isn't what happened,

maybe attach a copy of the file involved.

Lee

I don't really follow what happened. Did you open the file from your email client directly without saving it to the hard disk first?

When that happens, normally Windows saves the file for you in the temp folder. Check there for any filemaker files (check by date/time, the file may not have the name you expect it to).

Your temp folder usually is here (xxxx = your user name)

C:Documents and SettingsxxxxLocal SettingsTemp

Hey Thanks very much, I found it there and it saved the work I was doing to the temporary folder.

Yes, I opened it directly from email without saving to hard drive first. Bad Habit... Phew..