Hi Donna,

If you know the name of the file, or even the approximate name, you can go into 
Spotlight, command Space, and start typing the name of the file you are looking 
for, if it's on your system, it will be located and you can open it from the 
Spotlight Search results.

Les
On May 18, 2012, at 4:39 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I just had to work with a file that someone sent me as an email attachment.  
> My mac cleverly autosaved it somewhere, but I have absolutely no idea where.  
> This meant that when I had to send the file back to the other individual, I 
> was unable to find it.  Is there some way, when you're in a file, to see what 
> folder that file was created in?  I was working in Text Edit.
> Thanks,
> Donna
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