[Daiya Mitchell]

Stan Brown wrote:
Second, I don't know what's up with that "not safe". Editing a
document on a floppy or a removable USB drive is no more or less safe
than editing it on your computer's hard drive.


Actually, Stan, this is incorrect when it comes to Word. Every time a
document is opened and edited, Word creates a lot of temporary files in
the same location as the original file. On a small floppy disk that runs
out of space quickly, this is just about guaranteed to cause corruption
sooner or later, as the files cannot be created or closed properly. A
bigger flash/USB drive is less risky, but corruption still seems to be
reported more frequently when editing from a USB drive than on the hard
drive.