images disappeared after saving a big WORD file

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I had a big word 500 pages word docx file around 130MB. There are a lot of images which I just pasted from SnapIT tool. After I saved the file today, all the images disappear. The images are shown with title of "The image part with relationship ID rld1000 was not found in the file". I did change the name to zip and look for document.xml.rels. The rld's target is all NULL. I don't know where are the media files?
The size of file was 130MB. now it is only 400KB. what the heck with it? I am very desperate to get them back. Does anyone have a solution? Is it possible to get it back? How come 130MB file becomes 400KB just after saving? Thank you so much, I appreciate your help.

Fezzgig · Answer

I've had similar problems and they seem to be worse the larger the file gets. I've had luck saving the file as a .doc instead of a .docx and the problems seem to evaporate. Though, I'm not sure how to get your pictures back.

Answered by Fezzgig on December 3, 2021

Binggo_ MSFT · Answer

Do you have version history enabled?
If you've turned it on, you can find the previously saved version in OneDrive.
File - info - version history

If you don't turn on this feature.....it's hard to get your previous files back.

images disappeared after saving a big WORD file

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