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Why does my floppy disk drive start when I open Word?
I copied some Word documents onto my hard drive using the floppy. The Floppy
drive now starts when I open Word. How can I stop this? |
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If you want to be able to use your documents, when working with in Word, act
as if your floppy drive does not exist. (This applies to CDRW/CDR drives as well.) Don't use Word to: Open a document on a floppy Print a document on a floppy Edit a document on a floppy Save a document to a floppy (not even a copy) Word regularly trashes documents on floppy drives! Instead, work on the document using your hard drive. Copy it back and forth using Windows. I know that for some with shared computers (libraries) this is a tough prescription. All I can recommend for that is to use a brand new formatted disk each time you save and don't do any editing. To answer your question, from within Word, open a document on your hard drive. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "alanthegrey" wrote in message ... I copied some Word documents onto my hard drive using the floppy. The Floppy drive now starts when I open Word. How can I stop this? |
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Surely this can't be true?
"Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... If you want to be able to use your documents, when working with in Word, act as if your floppy drive does not exist. (This applies to CDRW/CDR drives as well.) Don't use Word to: Open a document on a floppy Print a document on a floppy Edit a document on a floppy Save a document to a floppy (not even a copy) Word regularly trashes documents on floppy drives! Instead, work on the document using your hard drive. Copy it back and forth using Windows. I know that for some with shared computers (libraries) this is a tough prescription. All I can recommend for that is to use a brand new formatted disk each time you save and don't do any editing. To answer your question, from within Word, open a document on your hard drive. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "alanthegrey" wrote in message ... I copied some Word documents onto my hard drive using the floppy. The Floppy drive now starts when I open Word. How can I stop this? |
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Why not? Floppy discs are an ancient technology. Word creates a host of
temporary files in the working folder. It is not possioble to pre-determine the file size of the document nor the size of the temporaty files. If it cannot create them through lack of space, then goodbye document, goodbye disc. *Always* work from the hard drive and *copy* to removable media from Windows. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Hi Ho Silver wrote: Surely this can't be true? "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... If you want to be able to use your documents, when working with in Word, act as if your floppy drive does not exist. (This applies to CDRW/CDR drives as well.) Don't use Word to: Open a document on a floppy Print a document on a floppy Edit a document on a floppy Save a document to a floppy (not even a copy) Word regularly trashes documents on floppy drives! Instead, work on the document using your hard drive. Copy it back and forth using Windows. I know that for some with shared computers (libraries) this is a tough prescription. All I can recommend for that is to use a brand new formatted disk each time you save and don't do any editing. To answer your question, from within Word, open a document on your hard drive. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "alanthegrey" wrote in message ... I copied some Word documents onto my hard drive using the floppy. The Floppy drive now starts when I open Word. How can I stop this? |
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But Word was busy trashing documents on floppy disks long before they became
"ancient technology" g. The blame surely lies with the way Word insists on relating to the "current directory" - if it made temporary files in a temporary directory, it wouldn't have the problem of continually writing into the same space needed for saved files. Not knowing the size of the document is a different non-issue (available space can be checked before a real file save, and you can be given a warning to save elsewhere or at worst lose editing since the last save - most applications don't find it necessary to write garbage over your saved data.) I believe, but can't confirm from my own experience, that if you do have to use a floppy (as in a library situation) checking the Save option "Make local copy of files stored on network or removable drives" may help with this and with the similar problem of trashing files opened over a network if the connection is lost or slow. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Why not? Floppy discs are an ancient technology. Word creates a host of temporary files in the working folder. It is not possioble to pre-determine the file size of the document nor the size of the temporaty files. If it cannot create them through lack of space, then goodbye document, goodbye disc. *Always* work from the hard drive and *copy* to removable media from Windows. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Hi Ho Silver wrote: Surely this can't be true? "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... If you want to be able to use your documents, when working with in Word, act as if your floppy drive does not exist. (This applies to CDRW/CDR drives as well.) Don't use Word to: Open a document on a floppy Print a document on a floppy Edit a document on a floppy Save a document to a floppy (not even a copy) Word regularly trashes documents on floppy drives! Instead, work on the document using your hard drive. Copy it back and forth using Windows. I know that for some with shared computers (libraries) this is a tough prescription. All I can recommend for that is to use a brand new formatted disk each time you save and don't do any editing. To answer your question, from within Word, open a document on your hard drive. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "alanthegrey" wrote in message ... I copied some Word documents onto my hard drive using the floppy. The Floppy drive now starts when I open Word. How can I stop this? |
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While the documents pointing to the floppy are still in the MRU cache, this
will continue. Empty the MRU cache. -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "alanthegrey" wrote in message ... :I copied some Word documents onto my hard drive using the floppy. The Floppy : drive now starts when I open Word. How can I stop this? |
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