I wonder if it is all part of the same problem. It seems to be stuck and is not refreshing The list shows 9 documents but is not adding the latest document and removing the one at the bottom of the list. I also notice that my "Recent" list in Visio 2010 is not showing the recently opened files. The fatal error/ application crash is shown in the event viewer and the application gave a error message that it had crashed so I don't understand why auto recovery is not working - it used to work. The question now is why didn't Visio offer up the files for recovery? They are clearly the files created by auto save/recovery but there was no way to know they were even available - there is no way to force the application to show the possible recoveryįiles. So I was able to restore to wihin 2 or 3 changes - saved 3 weeks of work! Since they have the proper Visio extension they open properlyĪnd are complete and fully functional unlike some sort of backup file that you can't really do anything with. Each of these files was one of the "saves" done by the auto save function. On my system there is no autorecover11.ini or any other autorecover.* file so I decided to do a search for all files modified on 7/25/11 and I found severalįiles in sequence called (and I am guessing at the name because i didn't write it down) vob.vxd. Yes, I had my folder view options set to show everything. If this answer helps, please click the Vote as Helpful button. If this answer solves your problem, please check Mark as Answered. Were you able to find the AppData directory? Normally that's one of the hidden ones that has to be turned on explicitly under Folder options to be visible.