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Why is Word creating such a stack of temp files?
I'm using Word 2002 on Windows XP. I had been working on my document,
hitting Save occasionally, for about 2 hours. When I peeked into the folder containing the document, there were about a dozen temp files, besides the one of the original file. Is this normal behavior? Am I heading fro disaster? Is there a setting or two I should change? Ed |
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Why is Word creating such a stack of temp files?
It's not generally pathological - Word seems to save these temp files for
"undo" purposes - you tend to get a lot if you are running macros or doing other rather complex tasks. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Ed" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2002 on Windows XP. I had been working on my document, hitting Save occasionally, for about 2 hours. When I peeked into the folder containing the document, there were about a dozen temp files, besides the one of the original file. Is this normal behavior? Am I heading fro disaster? Is there a setting or two I should change? Ed |
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Why is Word creating such a stack of temp files?
It's probably normal -- see http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632 for a
description. If they don't all go away when you close down Word, see http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm for the cleanup procedure. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Ed wrote: I'm using Word 2002 on Windows XP. I had been working on my document, hitting Save occasionally, for about 2 hours. When I peeked into the folder containing the document, there were about a dozen temp files, besides the one of the original file. Is this normal behavior? Am I heading fro disaster? Is there a setting or two I should change? Ed |
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Why is Word creating such a stack of temp files?
Thanks, Jay. I appreciate the link to let me see what's happening. I guess
I've never really looked that good at the temp files before, but seeing that many caught me by surprise. They all did disappear when I closed the file, so I assume all is well. (Or at least working as designed - this ~is~ Word, after all!) Ed "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... It's probably normal -- see http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632 for a description. If they don't all go away when you close down Word, see http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm for the cleanup procedure. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Ed wrote: I'm using Word 2002 on Windows XP. I had been working on my document, hitting Save occasionally, for about 2 hours. When I peeked into the folder containing the document, there were about a dozen temp files, besides the one of the original file. Is this normal behavior? Am I heading fro disaster? Is there a setting or two I should change? Ed |
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