skylark53 Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 I use Windows XP Pro, SP3 with Office 2003. During a routine tidy-up today, I found on my desktop a file called Backup of PASSWORDS.wbk, created 11 May 17. The file appears to be empty but its presence implies that there must originally have been a Word file called PASSWORDS.doc. I have searched everywhere I can think of, including recycle bin, which contains files going back to 1 January. But I can find no file with this name. The question is, does Explorer have any way of locating the Word file associated with a .wbk backup file? I'd like to find it because if there is such a Word file, I want to make sure it is either encrypted, or doesn't contain any sensitive information. The existence of the file is a mystery, since I seldom if ever give upper case filenames. Call me paranoid but I am slightly suspicious that something strange has happened. Thanks for any suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumper Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 A search for files modified on 11 May 17 might remind you of what you were doing that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylark53 Posted May 23, 2017 Author Share Posted May 23, 2017 (edited) Jumper, the first thing I did was a global search for files modified between 10 and 12/5/17. My question is: Does Explorer have any way of locating the Word file associated with a .wbk backup file? Edited May 23, 2017 by skylark53 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumper Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 Search for _all_ file types! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 On 5/23/2017 at 8:21 AM, skylark53 said: Jumper, the first thing I did was a global search for files modified between 10 and 12/5/17. My question is: Does Explorer have any way of locating the Word file associated with a .wbk backup file? I doubt that any software has recorded what created the file, I think that is what you are asking. You can try opening the file in a hex editor/strings viewer and see if Word had written the original file location in there somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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