If you want to be able to use your documents, when working within Word, act
as if your removable media drives do not exist! (This applies to floppy
drives, CDRW/CDR, flash drives, memory sticks or DVDR drives as well as any
other kind of removable media drives.)
Don't use Word to:
Open a document on removable media
Print a document on a removable media
Edit a document on a removable media
Save a document to a removable media (not even a copy)
Word regularly trashes documents on removable media drives!
Instead, work on the document using your hard drive. Copy it back and forth
using Windows. This means open windows for different drives / folders and
copy back and forth by ctrl-drag or copy and paste.
Your existing documents may be irretrievable. They are probably corrupt. See
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/doc...corruption.htm for some ideas.
--
Charles Kenyon
Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
http://addbalance.com/word
Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
http://addbalance.com/usersguide
See also the MVP FAQ:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
My criminal defense site:
http://addbalance.com
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"DJSMITH" wrote in message
...
Hi there.
I have exactly the same problem with opening a Word document
"The document name or path is not valid. Try these suggestions.
*check the file permissions for the document or drive.
*Use the File Open dialog box to locate the document." and it proceeds to
give me the path where it is located"
It is a small document, only 35kb. But it has happened to 4 or 5 small
documents. I always close down the pen drive so i don't know why this
happens!!
Shauna gave advice in how to prevent it happening again, but is there any
way of retrieving the documents? You didn't mention if there was. Also,
how
do you use Windows explorer to copy it to your memory stick. Do you mean,
save it on your hard drive, then drag it onto your hard drive window and
then
close down properly?
Thanks for your help in advance, DJ
"Lai Ming Hoe" wrote:
Hi Shauna Kelly,
i also have this problem, but we get it with using Windows Terminal
Service
to doing Mail Merge, even all the path and permission is check on the
server
all are done. so we test on our own pc is ok, after mail merge the file
size
is 50KB only.
i have ask my friend to recopy it according to ur artical. hope is
helpful
to us.
From Lai Ming Hoe
"Shauna Kelly" wrote:
Hi freely001
You are probably suffering from the problems associated with saving a
Word
document to any removable media. When Word opens a document, it also
creates
a whole lot of temporary files in the same folder as the document. It
uses
these files when you're working on the document. When you save the
document,
it creates a few more. With such a large file, the space required for
those
documents would be large.
Two things might have happened:
1. Word might have run out of space.
or
2. If you don't properly shut down a memory stick using the control on
the
Windows taskbar, then Windows does not close all the files.
So the lessons a
1. When you want to take a document home to work on it, save it to your
hard
disk, then use Windows Explorer to copy it to the memory stick. At
home, use
Windows Explorer to copy it from the memory stick to the hard drive of
your
computer, and work on it there. Never use Word to open a document from
a
memory stick, and don't use Word to save it to the memory stick.
2. Before you pull a memory stick out of its USB slot, make sure you
shut
down the device. There will be a little green icon near the clock.
Right-click it to shut down the memory stick.
Hope this helps.
Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
"freely001" wrote in message
...
I have been putting together a large presentation (last version was
2,658
kB). I saved it to a memory stick and took it home to work on. I
added to
it
but did not copy the additional changes over the original. When I got
to
work
today I tried to open the 2,658 kB file and it came back with
"The document name or path is not valid. Try these suggestions.
*check the file permissions for the document or drive.
*Use the File Open dialog box to locate the document." and it
proceeds to
give me the path where it is located. I have tried getting others to
open
the
file, checked to see if the file would open on my notebook that I
used to
work on it last night and even rebooted my computer and nothing has
worked.
What has happened?