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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:24:11 +0100, "Tony Jollans" My forename at my
surname dot com wrote: There are (at least) two different issues here. Operating system (e.g. Windows) locks must be placed somewhere where the operating system can find them and relate them to the locked resource. Where appropriate (e.g. concurrent updating in multi-user environments), application-level (e.g. Word) locks must be placed somewhere where other instances of the application can relate them to the original resource. I don't think any current versions of Word require such locks. Application temporary files should normally be placed in local temporary space. Instead of using the %temp% directory provided by Microsoft's own operating system specifically for this purpose, Word chooses to use the document's source folder. This does confuse users and does cause problems when working on networked devices and/or removable media. The only time there is any real reason to use a file's source folder for temporary work space is when saving a file - to make sure the file is properly saved before removing the original - overwriting in place is inherently risky. Quite right. This would be one possible exception, but even then, if there isn't enough space on the removable media, I would move the original file to the hard disk, write the new version on the removable media, then delete the old version -- all with appropriate flags to facilitate recovery in case of power failure or premature ejection. Again, any good undergraduate programming course would teach this. I am inclined to agree that Word's behaviour would be considered bad programming practice, and I can't think of a single thing in its favour. -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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