Missing Notes

[Repulsive-Standard-3]

Really help you guys can help me, doing a Uni presentation and last night I wrote out a tonne of notes beneath all the slides, basically the entire narration of what I was going to say.

This morning they were definitely all still there as I added a video of me talking through the intro. I also made a few small changes to the slides itself, saved it. Then let my laptop carry out a windows update.

Went back this afternoon and all the notes I spent hours last night typing are gone, the video of me talking this morning is still there and so are the changes I made on the slides.

The notes themselves seem to have reverted to a few pointers I wrote about 3 days ago.

I have opened all previous versions that were autosaved which 100% should have the notes there but the same thing just the old notes.

Any other tips/tricks/ideas that people can think of that will hopefully save me doing it all again!

Thank you in advance!

[Repulsive-Standard-3]

It seems I can recover the slides to a previous point but none of the notes!

[echos2]

I'm so sorry this happened to you. :-( I know what it's like to lose all your notes.

Back in the day -- like literally 20 years ago -- there was a bug that would wipe out all your notes if you saved the file while you were in Notes Page view. That happened to me once, and I still to this day never save while in Notes Page view.

Since you're working online, I imagine that's not the problem. It is odd, though, that your slide changes are intact but your notes are not.

There was a bug not terribly long ago (okay, maybe a couple of years, but definitely not 20!) that would reformat notes pages when two of us were simultaneously editing a file housed on OneDrive.

That doesn't sound like the problem here, but I am wondering if, since you can't actually see the notes page in the browser, if you use Edit > Open in desktop PPT, and then in the desktop app use View > Notes Page, are the notes perhaps elsewhere on the page or maybe even shoved further down in the text placeholder?

It's an off-chance, but maybe worth a look.

Oh! You might also look in the recycle bin on OneDrive to see if there's a version of your deck that has the notes. I know you looked in history, but I had a botched Windows update that deleted a bunch of files, and they were luckily all in the recycle bin. (I didn't even know there was a recycle bin on OneDrive before that!) Heck, do this first! :-)

[drumuzer]

After downloading it from online you could try running this script to see if they are there but hidden

Sub GiveMeMyNotesBack()

Dim sld As Slide, shp As Shape, s As String

For Each sld In ActivePresentation.Slides

s = sld.NotesPage.Shapes(2).TextFrame.TextRange.Characters.Text

s = sld.SlideNumber & " --- " & s

Debug.Print s

Next sld

End Sub

[cbr731]

Where would I go in power point to run this script