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No more .tmp files
I understand how TMP files work but I thought after you close out of word
they should go away automatically - any ideas on why they are not deleting automatically after I close completely out of Office? (Office XP) |
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For one thing, Windows is not particularly expedient about doing it's
housekeeping. Sometimes those temp files appear in the content window but they actually don't exist, sometimes they don't get trashed until you shut down the system. Regards |:) "Erika" wrote: I understand how TMP files work but I thought after you close out of word they should go away automatically - any ideas on why they are not deleting automatically after I close completely out of Office? (Office XP) |
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They should go, provided Word has not crashed and provided that Word is not
open because you are using it as an editor for Outlook and Outlook is still open. A cleanup would probably help. See - http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Erika wrote: I understand how TMP files work but I thought after you close out of word they should go away automatically - any ideas on why they are not deleting automatically after I close completely out of Office? (Office XP) |
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Another option--
With Word closed, access Windows Task Manager (Alt+Ctrl+Del). Select Processes Select WinWord.Exe Click End Process Eureka-- now you can delte the tmp file. In passing, if you have more than one WinWord process open--and it happens--Word Table functions do not work properly. Same solution. -- Larry Lester "Erika" wrote: I understand how TMP files work but I thought after you close out of word they should go away automatically - any ideas on why they are not deleting automatically after I close completely out of Office? (Office XP) |
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This is a _bad_ idea. When Word is closed and is not being used as Outlook's
email editor it should not appear in the processes. If it does, it is still running for some reason. Ending the process is the equivalent of deliberately crashing Word. Not a solution I would recommend for cleaning up stranded files. -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ 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. "Larry Lester" wrote in message ... Another option-- With Word closed, access Windows Task Manager (Alt+Ctrl+Del). Select Processes Select WinWord.Exe Click End Process Eureka-- now you can delte the tmp file. In passing, if you have more than one WinWord process open--and it happens--Word Table functions do not work properly. Same solution. -- Larry Lester "Erika" wrote: I understand how TMP files work but I thought after you close out of word they should go away automatically - any ideas on why they are not deleting automatically after I close completely out of Office? (Office XP) |
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