If you have ever opened an attachment, lovingly edited it, pressed save, and at some later date returned to find that Word had saved it into a Temp folder, and helpfully deleted it, you will know what it is like to lose words.

You are not alone. Losing words is like a fire. Sometimes there is a darkened plain on which nothing can grow. Sometimes pale and skeletal bones remain in the ashes.

And, just sometimes, the file is retrievable. It turns out that those words weren’t lost after all.