[Terry Farrell]

Not at all and this post is an example of why not to do it.

Perhaps some of the newest FAST flash drives used on a fast motherboard with
up to date BIOS MAY be safer. But be assured that we still regularly see
posts complaining of documents lost/corrupted through using a flash drive.

Some of the newer flash drives and motherboard combinations will let you use
them as bootable drives and these may possibly be OK. But the majority of
users will still be using equipment that doesn't support fast, bootable
drives and just are not as good as a HDD for saving.

Word still has a very complex save routine which entails writing and
over-writing temp files in the target folder as it builds up the final file.
Flash drives and most other removable media just aren't up to the task.

Also, when you save to a folder, it becomes the 'active' folder for Word and
remains so until you redirect Word to a different folder. If the folder
happens to be REM media, if you pull the media it can really screw up Word.

Finally, many flash drives do not have an activity indicator and the users
pull the drive as soon as Word thinks it has finished saving, where in
reality, some data is still in memory being written to the flash drive
(which is still slow compared to the installed memory). Hence, the document
save is never completed.

Terry Farrell

"Gordon" wrote in message
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"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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Don't ever save to a flash drive or any other form of removable drive. It
is the easiest way to corrupt and lose your document. Always save to the
HDD and then COPY to the rem media.

Why not? What's the difference between saving to a slave HDD and saving to
a memory stick that's connected to the USB bus?
I agree that in the old days of 1.44 MB floppy disks, that was a definite
no no, but in this day and age of 1, 2, 4 or 8 GB memory sticks? I think
technology has superceded that argument.