Trying to recover files made from a deleted Microsoft account
I'm fully aware this may have no solution but I figured it'd be worth a shot to ask here.
In my school district every student got a Microsoft office 365 account to do our assignments. When we graduate, that account gets deleted.
I had a couple of word files on that account that I wanted to keep, so I figured I could save them if i drag and dropped them into my pc.
I didn't check in on the files for a while after I graduated, but recently when I tried to open it on a new MS account.
What i got was a message saying the file was probably corrupted or something like that. I had the same files "saved" in a memory card, but turns out it was only a shortcut to the file?
Honestly I'm just mildly upset.
I've never been the best with this kind of thing but I really want to know of there's any hope of me getting these files fixed and able to open in my new MS account.