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saving documents in word 2003 goes to a temp file
First time saving is file, save as and we put it in a location. After that
all saves automatically go to a temp file when we hit save. Once we close word, the temp files disappears and can't be found. |
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Hi ?B?cmRvdWdodG9u?=,
First time saving is file, save as and we put it in a location. After that all saves automatically go to a temp file when we hit save. Once we close word, the temp files disappears and can't be found. My first thought would be that some kind of third-party file management software is interfering, here. If you boot Windows in SAFE MODE, does the problem go away? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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I just saw this - it is identical to an issue I posted about a week or two
ago. Exactly the same symptom. I use the workaround to File/SaveAs and overwrite the current version, but I learned that the temp file contains the changes I made most recently. Did you get a resolution to this? Is it a plugin or service that is interfering? "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?cmRvdWdodG9u?=, First time saving is file, save as and we put it in a location. After that all saves automatically go to a temp file when we hit save. Once we close word, the temp files disappears and can't be found. My first thought would be that some kind of third-party file management software is interfering, here. If you boot Windows in SAFE MODE, does the problem go away? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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John Campbell wrote:
I just saw this - it is identical to an issue I posted about a week or two ago. Exactly the same symptom. I use the workaround to File/SaveAs and overwrite the current version, but I learned that the temp file contains the changes I made most recently. 'Jennifer' advised that I could avoid increasingly large .DOC files via profuse editing by the sav-as mode, and I now use it all the time. Did you get a resolution to this? Is it a plugin or service that is interfering? The phenomenon occurs when one wants to have their cake and eat it, too. That is, the Track Changes mode is extremely useful when developing technical text, as 'everything must be just so' in prose logic, and sometimes takes a try, or two, or three. However, having constructed much of the document that way, and past activities now becoming true history, the old accumulations required to track changes are now obsolete and should be discarded. In my case, the files so accumulated sometimes become 2 to five times the size of the cleaned file; a waste of HD space, and a threat to stability, since the history file cane be very tortuous, containing huge blocks (pages) moved from from to back, etc., plus a lot of typos fixed, pictures in and out; a real dog's breakfast. This can be a threat to system stability. (My ACAD system in the 1980's crashed frequently this way, not the accumulation; just the back-and-fill editing.) I don't know whether the Word software designers fully appreciated this MO in users' deployments of their software. But I, for one, being a technical writer since 1953 (then, my MS thesis in physics) use this method. Before 1980 (Wang era), I wrote a long rough paper by hand expressing the kernel of my thoughts, then literally cut it up into short strips of content and reassembled it in the classical technical paper outline, repeating that process as many times as needed to "get there from here". Today, with word processors, scissors and scotch tape or staplers are no longer needed, but, by golly, my mind still works the same way. So, I suggest that a save mode which I term "save, cleaned", or "Clean Save" needs to be added to the File menu. Angelo Campanella -- --------- www.CampanellaAcoustics.com --------- "I have simply studied carefully whatever I've undertaken, and tried to hold a reserve that would carry me through." - Charles A. Lindbergh. "As for background noise level; 35 dBA is a good classroom; 45 dBA is a sound masking system!" - Anthony K. Hoover "Every day, we perform on the stage that we set yesterday." AJC. |
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