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Word Recovery Files
I am using Word 2003. I continue to get several files showing as recovery
files, even though I have tried to delete all of them because I have already saved them again. When I check my File Locations for Recovery Documents, there is nothing showing. How do I stop these files coming up or find them elsewhere on my system in order to delete them? |
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Moya wrote:
I am using Word 2003. I continue to get several files showing as recovery files, even though I have tried to delete all of them because I have already saved them again. When I check my File Locations for Recovery Documents, there is nothing showing. How do I stop these files coming up or find them elsewhere on my system in order to delete them? With Word closed, check for orphan files - 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 |
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Thanks Graham
I have tried that and get as far as searching and listing all problem files, but then when I go to delete most of them the following message comes up: "Cannot delete file: cannot read from thesource file or disk". May be I can delete from DOS, by creating that DOS batch file??? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Moya wrote: I am using Word 2003. I continue to get several files showing as recovery files, even though I have tried to delete all of them because I have already saved them again. When I check my File Locations for Recovery Documents, there is nothing showing. How do I stop these files coming up or find them elsewhere on my system in order to delete them? With Word closed, check for orphan files - 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 |
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You can try it from a DOS window, but DOS from the command line will not
help you if your hard disc is formatted at NTFS as DOS will not see it. One thing you should try is to open a DOS window and type chkdsk/f. This will almost certainly tell you that the disc is in use and offer to check at the next boot. Agree to this then restart Windows. If you have more than one drive or partition, do it for each. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Moya wrote: Thanks Graham I have tried that and get as far as searching and listing all problem files, but then when I go to delete most of them the following message comes up: "Cannot delete file: cannot read from thesource file or disk". May be I can delete from DOS, by creating that DOS batch file??? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Moya wrote: I am using Word 2003. I continue to get several files showing as recovery files, even though I have tried to delete all of them because I have already saved them again. When I check my File Locations for Recovery Documents, there is nothing showing. How do I stop these files coming up or find them elsewhere on my system in order to delete them? With Word closed, check for orphan files - 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 |
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