2018-06-20 22:00:04 / Posted by Rosa Reyes to Recover Follow @ Rosa
How can I recover unsaved PowerPoint on Mac? Many users have similar problems, and I am not the exception. Last week, I spent two days in designing my PowerPoint presentations with great shapes, animations, images, tables, word art, basic shapes, stars, etc. Unfortunately, my PowerPoint crashed and I didn’t have extra time to make such a valuable PowerPoint again.
So I did some research for recovering PowerPoint files unsaved or deleted on mac, and finally I recovered my PowerPoint file with an Mac data recovery software. Here I want to share it, actually there are two ways to recover PPT files on Mac in PowerPoint 2008, 2011 and 2016, one is to recover unsaved PowerPoint Mac, and the other is to recover lost or deleted PowerPoint files.
To avoid the PowerPoint file from being overwritten, please do not add new data or install Mac Data Recovery software on the hard drive where you lost PowerPoint presentation. Just follow below ways, you will recover unsaved PowerPoint on Mac and get your lost or deleted PPT file back.
Microsoft Office has a fantastic feature called AutoSave; that it can automatically save a temporary PPT copy on a periodic basis. The feature is turned on by default and the default save interval is 10 minutes. And AutoRecover, a feature that is available in some Office applications, attempts to recover PowerPoint files automatically in the event of data loss.
So in order to recover unsaved PowerPoint Mac, you have to enable AutoSave or AutoRecover first. If not, just click the Microsoft Office and follow below guide to turn on or change how frequently PowerPoint files are automatically saved:
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If your Mac crashes and quit your PPT without saving, next time you open PowerPoint, it will automatically recover PowerPoint files not saved on Mac. And you can follow next path to find PowerPoint autosave location and recover unsaved PPT in Mac:
For Office 2011 and 2008:
/Users/username/Library/Application Support/ Microsoft/Office/Office X AutoRecovery (X stands for Office version of your PPT).
For Office 2016:
/Users/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.PowerPoint/Data/Library/Preferences/AutoRecovery
The amount of new information that the recovered PPT file contains depends on how frequently a Microsoft Office program saves the recovery file. For example, if the recovery file is saved only every 15 minutes, your recovered PPT file won't contain your last 14 minutes of work before the power failure or other problem occurred. And you can also use above method to recover word document on Mac and recover excel files not saved.
If you couldn't find the unsaved PowerPoint files by following above method, then the last thing you can do is to check your temporary folder. If you are lucky enough, maybe you can find unsaved PowerPoint files on Mac. Here are steps to locate PowerPoint temp files on Mac.
If you can’t find the unsaved PowerPoint file, it may get lost. You can choose a third-party PowerPoint recovery software to recover lost PowerPoint file on Mac. As long as the PPT document has not been overwritten yet, there's hope of recovering the lost PowerPoint document.
Cisdem Data Recovery will be a good choice for you as it is effective in PPT recovery no matter which PowerPoint version you are running. It is the best data recovery software for Mac which can recover files such as office document files, pictures, videos, etc from Mac hard drive and other external storage devices.
You can download and install this PowerPoint recovery software on Mac. It’s free to try it. Then follow the below guide to start your lost or deleted PowerPoint recovery job.
Open this PowerPoint Recovery Software and you will see five recovery solutions, choose the suitable one. Here I choose “Advanced File Recovery”. This option will scan the entire drive to find lost or deleted files like Images, Videos, Dcouments including PPT, DOC, PDF, and Excel, etc.
Tip: If you want to recover PowerPoint document from USB, SD card or external hard drive, please connect it to your Mac in advance.
After you choose recovery wizard, you will see an interface showing different kinds of storage devices, including hard drive partitions and other external storage device (if connected to your Mac). You can select the drive or device for recovering PowerPoint files.
After scanning, this powerful PPT recovery tool will list all found files on the left column. You can click PPT file to preview, and select the PPT file, then click “Recover” button to recover PPT file on Mac.
Although it is always recommended to periodically save your PowerPoint files to avoid any kind of data loss, however if you haven’t been very diligent in saving your work or have suffered from events such as a system crash that may cause data loss, then you can follow the above mentioned process to recover unsaved PowerPoint files and get all lost PPT files back by using Cisdem Data Recovery. Last but not least, always click the "Save" button after you make any change to your PPT presentation.
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This app can find the deleted ppt files for me, thanks. Rosa, if I buy one single license, can I get a discount?
Hi, Ching. You can visit its product page to see if there is a discount or not.
I have foolishly deleted a powerpoint file accidentally while using a Mac Cleaner app, but thank god, I got it back with this powerful data recovery.
What a wonderful data recovery it is! I was working on a very important PPT, and i remembered to save it in a folder. I opened my Mac and the PPT was missing. Then I was looking for a data recovery software on Google and i found Cisdem datarecovery, it recovered the missing PPT.