MacBook Pro

I've loaded Word onto my MacBook Pro. Some documents seem to vanish after a while. I saved some on the Mac and on the desktop and poof they're gone. I'm reading on line that people have sometimes had that problem. I plan on drilling down and attempting to find these files this weekend. It's kind of critical because I've been working on a novel and have been saving each chapter, but some of the revisions are gone. Has anybody else had this problem and what did you do about it?

Have you tried searching for one of the missing files using the "spotlight search" at the very top right corner of the white bar at the top of the screen. That should allow you to search the entire computer. I have not had this problem, but that is what I would try.

Good luck! k4k

ETA: The Apple Cloud Drive gives you 4 GB for free. I back up manuscripts that way even though I have a back up hard drive. It makes it easy to transfer files to other computers as well, so I recommend that for future important documents.

Yes I finally wised up to Apple drive. Santa is supposed to be bringing a back up hard drive. So far I’ve been using finder but will try spotlight tonight. Thanks for the tip.

Using the finder should work but who knows. Maybe it misses something.