Removable media may only be used with extreme caution as it is all too easy
to corrupt the transient temporary files that Word creates when documents
are opened and edited - thereby corrupting the document or the format of the
removable media itself. It is therefore *always* recommended that you *copy*
files to and from your removable media. If you find it so onerous to
manually copy documents for transportation then you will find a macro at
http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm that will backup files to a
removable drive as you use them.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site
www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site
http://word.mvps.org
DaveF wrote:
" Never save directly to removable media. Save it to your hard drive
then transfer the file within Windows Explorer."
I have this problem too. How is this an answer? I use my thumb
drive for all of my data and I have for 6 years. Now, recently this
occurs in conjunction with NAV (Norton Anti Virus). Now, I have
found by searching around that this occurs to people without NAV - it
occurs on some specific hardware.
It is not really an option for me to copy my files when I leave my
office on a moments notice to go to a client site.
Is it the position of MicroSoft that thumbdrives can't be used
directly? This is a relatively old problem. Will there be a patch?
If this is the only answer then why can't word to this bit of grunt
work for me?
DaveF