How to Recover Lost WPS Office 2016 Files

Request for help: How to recover deleted files in WPS Office 2016?

"Hey, do you know how to recover lost WPS Office files after Windows update? Recently, I updated my computer, but all my WPS Office 2016 files, including documents, Excel, and PPT, were missing. Or rather, the new system wiped out my WPS Office 2016 files. Anyway, I'm wondering if there's any chance of retrieving deleted WPS document files?"

Accidental deletion, formatting, virus attack, system upgrade/update/crash, hard drive failure, and cleaning up junk files can lead to the loss of WPS files on your Windows or Mac computer. To recover deleted files and get back lost WPS documents, the Data Recovery Wizard tool is essential.

How to recover deleted files using the WPS Recovery Tool

To recover deleted files from WPS Office 2016, you can't miss data recovery software, which enables you to effectively retrieve lost WPS document files from internal hard drive (HDD and SSD), external hard drive, USB flash drive, portable drive, Android SD card, and more.

Aside from document recovery, Data Recovery Wizard is also great for performing deleted photo recovery, as well as video, audio, email, ZIP, and RAR recovery. Now, download and install this data recovery program on your computer, then follow the 3 simple steps below to start retrieving your deleted WPS Office files.

Step 1. Launch the Data Recovery Wizard tool. Select the disk where you lost your files and start scanning. This software lets you recover lost data from all kinds of devices, including HDD, SSD, USB drives, SD cards, flash drives, cameras, and more.

Step 2. Review the scan results. You can click on the file type filter to select the file type you need. Stellar Data Recovery software supports over 1000 file types, including photos, videos, documents, emails, audio files, and more.

Step 3: Select the files you want to preview. Click on "Recover" and set a location to save the recovered data.

If you happen to lose important WPS Office files on your Mac, you can also download the Mac version of the Data Recovery Wizard tool to easily get back the WPS Office files you need.

How to recover unsaved WPS Office 2016 documents

Unsaved documents are often lost due to sudden power outages, app or computer crashes, or human error. For Microsoft Office users, the question of how to recover unsaved Word documents is a perennial one. The same is true for WPS Office users. If you've lost an unsaved rather than a saved WPS document, you may be able to recover it by restoring from an auto-save backup in WPS.

1. Recover files from the prompt

When a WPS document closes unexpectedly, the easiest solution is to restart WPS and recover from an auto-saved file backup according to the on-screen instructions.

2. Recovering Lost Documents from a Local File

If no prompts appear, you might be able to recover lost WPFS documents from your local file system.

• Click on WPS, and then select the “Backup Manager” tab from the drop-down list. • Choose the file you want to open and save.

If there is no backup file in the Backup Management interface, click View Other Backups at the bottom right. A backup folder will pop up, where all your backups are stored.

How to Backup WPS Office 2016 Files to Prevent Data Loss

To prevent unexpected loss of your WPS Office 2016 files, we highly recommend that you back up important documents regularly with any of the following methods.

1. Enable the Auto-Save feature in WPS

Click the top-left corner of a WPS Office 2016 file (e.g., Writer, Spreadsheets, or Presentation) > “Tools” from the drop-down list, then select “Options.” Go to “General & Save” > check “Store recent files list, Create backup file on first save, and Auto-save backup file every * minutes (set your preferred frequency for auto-saving WPS Office files),” then click “OK.”

This way, all edited files in the WPS Office 2016 are automatically backed up. This applies to all WPS Office files, such as Writer, Presentation, and Spreadsheets, among others.

2. Use a planned backup software to back up your WPS Office 2016 files.

Auto-save can back up your edited documents automatically. But how to protect the saved WPS files effectively? You can use reliable third-party backup software, like Todo Backup, which is the best Windows scheduled backup software to automatically back up important WPS files based on your choice (one-time/daily/weekly/monthly/event-triggered).

3. Using WPS Cloud Backup for WPS Files

With File Roaming turned on, documents you create or open in WPS Office are automatically saved to the WPS Cloud.

Open WPS Writer/Presentation/Spreadsheets, and click the Login button in the top-right corner to log in with your account. Alternatively, you can access it through "My Workspace" - "File Roaming" - and click "Start Using Now." Please note that if you log out, any opened or edited documents will not be uploaded to the cloud.