Chris, this was amazingly helpful. Exactly what I needed. I'll add detail for future reference. Once I pulled the paper lunch sack from around my mouth, I checked the %appdata% folder (C:\Users\myname\AppData) and saw that there were a bunch of directories in ProjectRecovery. Unfortunately, the most recent was several days ago. I reached for the bag again. Fortunately, when I looked in %TEMP%, there were more recent files. I opened up a Command window (Windows button, type "CMD") and typed in %TEMP%. This told me the location of that folder (C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Temp). Surfing there, I did see a bunch of SEG1234 files that had wildly named folders in them: "d4abe1c686414b95a21f42e5d6532975", etc. Each of these seems to have a file in it - some have a "code.sas" file, some have "results.txt". I chose the one from this morning, and when I looked inside these folders, the "code.sas" files matched the most recent versions of my SAS programs. My code was not lost, but my prompts did not seem to be in any of those folders, so I dreaded recreating 20-30 prompts. On a whim I renamed the "tmp1234.tmp" file in the SEG1234 directory to "test.egp", it opened right up in EGuide, and there was the rehydrated project. Prompts and everything. I felt confident because the filesize was slightly larger than the older recovery file in ProjectRecovery, but was still happy when running that random temporary file through EGuide did no harm. Good as new, bag's in the trash. Thanks 1x10^6 for your help, hope someone else can use this in the future. Ben
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