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What is a file permission error when saving a Word doc?
Today, when trying to save a Word document, first on a USB stick, then on our
hard drive, I get an error message saying: "Word cannot complete the save due to a file permission error." - then the file path. I am then asked if I want to try and save again. If I say no, it assigns ~WRL name to it. If I say yes, I can rename the file. However, if I say no and don't do anything, a few minutes later I get another dialogue box saying: "There is an unrecoverable disk error on (temp ~WRL # it has assigned). The disk you're working on has a media problem that prevents work from using it. Try the following: *Try formatting another disc or *Save document to another disc. This is while I am working on our C drive. I can't seem to find any help on this problem. Of course this happened to a completed proposal I'd been working on for a couple of weeks! |
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What is a file permission error when saving a Word doc?
Word is not intended to read from or write to removable media directly. The
media will corrupt if there is insufficient room for the document and the associated temporary files. Always work from the hard drive and *copy* to removable media. The following macro will save the current document to the hard drive then copy it to your USB media. All you have to do is change the drive letter from A: in the DestinationFile to that of your USB media (which you should assign a permanent drive letter to via Windows Administrative Tools). Sub CopyDocToUSBStick() Dim SourceFile As String Dim DestinationFile As String ActiveDocument.Save SourceFile = ActiveDocument.Name ' Define source file name. DestinationFile = "A:\" & SourceFile ' Define target file name. ActiveDocument.Close On Error GoTo oops FileCopy SourceFile, DestinationFile ' Copy source to target Documents.Open SourceFile End oops: MsgBox "The USB Stick is not available" Documents.Open SourceFile End Sub http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Meg wrote: Today, when trying to save a Word document, first on a USB stick, then on our hard drive, I get an error message saying: "Word cannot complete the save due to a file permission error." - then the file path. I am then asked if I want to try and save again. If I say no, it assigns ~WRL name to it. If I say yes, I can rename the file. However, if I say no and don't do anything, a few minutes later I get another dialogue box saying: "There is an unrecoverable disk error on (temp ~WRL # it has assigned). The disk you're working on has a media problem that prevents work from using it. Try the following: *Try formatting another disc or *Save document to another disc. This is while I am working on our C drive. I can't seem to find any help on this problem. Of course this happened to a completed proposal I'd been working on for a couple of weeks! |
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What is a file permission error when saving a Word doc?
I just found a solution to this problem in case you haven't yet. I was
able to get documents to save by reformatting the USB drive from FAT to FAT32. Meg wrote: Today, when trying to save a Word document, first on a USB stick, then on our hard drive, I get an error message saying: "Word cannot complete the save due to a file permission error." - then the file path. I am then asked if I want to try and save again. If I say no, it assigns ~WRL name to it. If I say yes, I can rename the file. However, if I say no and don't do anything, a few minutes later I get another dialogue box saying: "There is an unrecoverable disk error on (temp ~WRL # it has assigned). The disk you're working on has a media problem that prevents work from using it. Try the following: *Try formatting another disc or *Save document to another disc. This is while I am working on our C drive. I can't seem to find any help on this problem. Of course this happened to a completed proposal I'd been working on for a couple of weeks! |
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