[steveb]

Thanks for all your suggestions, I will investigate them.
However, this identical 1k file is automatically generated with any of my MS
Word files I open. I can also delete it without getting the message that it,
or the main file, is open. This is while the original main file is open. I
have the same Word program on my laptop but it does not act this way.


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

This is the "owner file," and you should not be able to delete it while the
associated document is open; see €œDescription of how Word creates temporary
files€� at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632.

If you are experiencing trouble with the document, it is *not* caused by the
presence of this file, which is required. You may want to explore whether
the document is corrupt; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm

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"steveb" wrote in message
...
I have read the answers to this post but not sure the answer I need is
there.
I have upgraded from ME to XP
My MS Word program is Word 2002 SP3
When I open a document (eg: The Document) in Word it immediately saves a
1k
document with the name ~$e Document (tilde and dollar sign replacing first
two letters of title) in the same file as the original document. Opening
this
new document shows the information I have on File/Properties/Summary for
Author and Company and nothing else.
Problem: Unless I delete this 1k document before I start working on the
main
document the computer soon locks and can only be reactivated through
switching off the power. Any suggestions?


"Klaus Linke" wrote:

Hi Gena, Graham,

You're probably not working with Word2003? That would try to recover the
doc
the next time you start Word.

If the machine crashed overnight, it's just about certain that Word left
temporary files.
And I don't think rebooting does anything to temp files?
Not even restarting/quitting Word (before 2003) would do that: I get
about
100 temp files a month to clean up on my machine from crashes.

You should search for ~*.*,*.tmp, sort the results by date, and then
check
the list for files that have about the right size and time stamp.
You'll need to include hidden files and folders under the advanced
search
options, I guess.

If they contain something useful, you can likely just open them in Word
(...
*not* using "Recover text from any file": that would loose all
formatting).

Regards,
Klaus


"Graham Mayor" wrote:
Rebooting should clear any temporary files. If you didn't save the
document, there is nothing to recover.

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susiq wrote:
I have been reading the posts about how to get the original document
back when Word makes a TMP file. I typed a document in word and my
computer rebooted overnight, but my document did not save. It is
quite lengthy and I will have to retype it if I cannot extract the
original text. One post alluded to getting the document back, but it
did not explain how. Can you help me?

Gena Meeks


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

The only ones I've ever found to contain document content are the
~$wrlxxxx.tmp files, each of which is a complete previous save.

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"Russ" wrote in message
...
So is there no way to recover the original text from a tmp file
named wrs or wrf? I am trying to recover a file I accidentally
saved over.

"Beth Melton" wrote:

I'm glad to hear you were able to recover the document. :-)

More than likely you found ~wrd002.tmp in the same folder as the
document.

Out of all the temp files Word creates, this is the only one
(~wrd*.tmp)
that you could recover all of the document content.

Word creates this temp file Word when a document it saved. It
creates/writes the temp file in the document folder, deletes the
original, and moves the temp file to take the original's place.

The other temp file, called the Owner file, (~$*.do?) is created
when
you open a previously saved document and all it contains is user
info.

This file is used if you attempt to open the document a second
time,
such as in a network environment. If Word finds the Owner file then
you encounter a message along the lines of "Document in use by User
Name".

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"arhangelmihailo" wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I did it, I got me out of this problem. I can't believe it was so
simple! Well, here it is. As we all know, there has to be a
.tmp file that
Word makes, and thx God this is very useful in case of Word (or
comp)
crashing. It is true that I only had to deal with 2 files:
~$plan2004.doc and plan2004.doc. And there was no other .tmp file,
at frst sight. In fact, there was, but I had to dig it from the hard
(God knows where I found it!), and it was hidden attributed. And,
that is right, this file is named something like this ~wrd0002.tmp.
It is slightly different from original (formated adds were not the
same), but the content is untouched, and that is the most important.
The rest was very easy...formating the content...save as...and
that's it.
Thx Everyone! Now, I can keep my job!