Recovering Files After Microsoft Word 2016 for Mac Autosave Failure

I have Microsoft Word 2016 for Mac's autosave feature set to 1 minute. Word saves autorecovery files in an impossibly obscure location, so I in preferences I set the AutoRecovery files location to a sensible location.

Still, I had a crash and there were no Autorecovery files saved. Yet, I was able to eventually recover most of the work. I found these instructions after a lot of Google searching:

Mac OS creates temporary files located in your computer’s Temporary or TMP folder. The lost file may be located in this folder. To find this folder;

1. Launch Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal)
2. Paste this command and press enter: open $TMPDIR
3. This will open tmp folder.
4. Open the folder named: “Temporaryitems”. Look for the Word folder and look for files with the approximate time of an Autosave prior to the crash.