Word: Auto Recovery Save files-- What is the meaning of Times “Created” & “Modified" ? I would like to understand the meaning of Times “Created” & “Modified” [under properties] for Auto Recovery Save files = .asd files. Does “Time Created” refer to that moment of automatic saving [every 10 minutes] ? ; or to the time when Word is first opened [after a bad shutdown]? or the time when the user opts to save the recovered doc? ------------------- Similarly, What does “Time Modified” mean? Modified by me or the PC? _______________________________________________________ I’m trying to get a Chronology of events leading to my PC breakdown to see if there was a power glitch….or to understand what happened to create & modify the Auto Recovery files as chronicled in the log below. I don’t know why there are so many AutoRecovery saves: 5 saves in just 2 days! --These aren’t the 10-min saves or there would be many more. PS: I don’t think Word or the PC was improperly shut down. ---- ITEM #2 was “modified” immediately after it was created, but Items #3 & #4 were modified many hours later-- somehow by Scandisk’s scheduled start up. ________________________________________________________________ LOG of Events: ITEM #1 Sat 11:35 am “The Little Old Lady From Pasadena.doc” was Created [This flile is partly corrupted.] ITEM #2 Sat 12:00 noon “AutoRecovery save of Document1.asd” was Created,then Modified-- 1 sec later. ------------- ITEM #3 Sat 2:18 pm “AutoRecovery save of The Little Old Lady From Pasadena.asd” was Created -- ITEM #4 Sat 5:21 pm “AutoRecovery save of BILL PAYMENT OPTIONS.asd” was Created ____________________________________________________________________ Sun, 3am: Scandisk started as scheduled & 2 sec’s later: Items #3 & #4 were somehow Modified-not by me! _________________________________________________________________ Sun 8:27 am: I woke up,closed ScanDisk-- which never finished due to long filenames. Sun 8:38 am: ITEM #1-- Modified [by me?] Sun 9 am: I Restarted the PC-but it failed to boot & hasn’t booted yet.