If you have autosave on an Mathcad is not able to recover a file after a crash on its own, you may have a look in the directory "documents & settings"/<your user name>/"application data"/"Mathsoft"/"Mathcad"/"14"/"Autosave"
I never had that problem but there are reports from users about crashes when this directory took up too much space and they recommended to clean up that directory from time to time.
I wanted to try to recover it by using the file MFCxx.temp. In fact, I opened it with notepad and I have found that it is there but can't be accessed with mathcad. |
I guess its a zero byte file, so there is no information in it. If you have seen information in the file with notepad you may try to rename it to *.xmcd and open it with Mathcad.
As far as I understand it, when you save a file it is always save in a temporary MFC... file in the same directory where the final version should be saved. That way the latest saved version is not destroyed. When the saving was successful the temp-file is renamed and only then the older file is overwritten. As renaming usually doesn't make any problems the most likely reason you see an MFC... file is that it could not be written for some reason. Most of the times it will a zero byte file then.
