Hi Shauna,
Ur response refers to documents saved on a removable media. In my case - it
was the hard disk (these dont get disconnected, do they?)
Request if u can go thru the content below and opine your views. I am pretty
put off with the way word has acted up y'day - and recreating the whole
thought process and consequent document is a pain ... Can this be simulated
by you. As corrective action - will reducing the auto save frequency help? Is
this document recoverable? Are there tools available on the net for word
document recovery/rebuild?
Thx & Rgds,
Kiran Bajaj
Case
I have just been working on a doc since noon
Copy of RefDoc€“ Operating Model and Governance Framework for Development
Factory.doc. The doc is 383 KB in size.
At 19:00hrs i got a freak passing message - something like too many edits ....
The application closed and now i get this message
The document name or path is not valid
Try one or more of the following:
* Check the path to make sure it was typed correctly
* On the file menu, click on open. Search for the file using this dialog box
I click ok and nothing happens .. boom..
I have racking my brains out - since morning on this one - and had reached
90% completion levels on the doc. Can some one help me on how to recover this
file. MS Word experts come to my rescue
Rgds,
KB.
End Case
"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?