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Documents being renamed to .tmp name automatically
I have several users that when they are in a document, making changes to it,
sometimes it changes the name of the document to a temp file with a number (ex. WRC#####.tmp). This is very confusing for them when they have multiple documents open and have to switch from one to another. It usually happens when the document is open for more than 10 minutes. I went into the Save settings under ToolsOptions and set the AutoRecover time to more than 10 minutes but it still will rename the file after a certain amount of time. Is there a fix for this, without totally disabling the AutoRecover feature? I don't understand why it does this. Does anybody have any suggestions? |
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On Aug 20, 3:34*pm, drumkey35 wrote: I have several users that when they are in a document, making changes to it, sometimes it changes the name of the document to a temp file with a number (ex. WRC#####.tmp). *This is very confusing for them when they have multiple documents open and have to switch from one to another. It usually happens when the document is open for more than 10 minutes. I went into the Save settings under ToolsOptions and set the AutoRecover time to more than 10 minutes but it still will rename the file after a certain amount of time. Is there a fix for this, without totally disabling the AutoRecover feature? I don't understand why it does this. Does anybody have any suggestions? |
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Peter has given you a method for not seeing these files, although they will
still exist. It would also be good for you to understand what they are. Word is *not* changing the name of the document; it is creating temporary files that it requires in order to operate. As the article at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632 explains, many of these files must be in the same folder as the document, and it is not possible to put them somewhere else. All you can do is hide them. They also are not related in any way to AutoRecover, and disabling AutoRecover won't stop them from being created. The AutoRecover feature creates files with an extension of .asd, not .tmp. -- 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. drumkey35 wrote: I have several users that when they are in a document, making changes to it, sometimes it changes the name of the document to a temp file with a number (ex. WRC#####.tmp). This is very confusing for them when they have multiple documents open and have to switch from one to another. It usually happens when the document is open for more than 10 minutes. I went into the Save settings under ToolsOptions and set the AutoRecover time to more than 10 minutes but it still will rename the file after a certain amount of time. Is there a fix for this, without totally disabling the AutoRecover feature? I don't understand why it does this. Does anybody have any suggestions? |
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Documents being renamed to .tmp name automatically
I apologize, I may have explained this wrong. I understand how the temp files
work in Word and why they are needed, but this isn't for temp files that are showing up inside of the folder. I'll give an example of what I'm asking, a user opens up a document, does some editing on it, then minimizes the window and it may sit open for some time. When she goes back to the document to work on it again, she brings the document window, that was minimized, back up. At the top of the document (on the title bar), instead of having the document title it will have something like "WRCxxxxx.tmp. She is then unable to save it under the original title without using "Save As" and jumping through many hoops. If she just hits save, it retains the temp file name. This is particularly frustrating for her when she has more than one document open and they all do the same thing. It makes it hard for her to distinguish one document from another. Does that make any sense? I hope I explained it a little better. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Todd "Jay Freedman" wrote: Peter has given you a method for not seeing these files, although they will still exist. It would also be good for you to understand what they are. Word is *not* changing the name of the document; it is creating temporary files that it requires in order to operate. As the article at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632 explains, many of these files must be in the same folder as the document, and it is not possible to put them somewhere else. All you can do is hide them. They also are not related in any way to AutoRecover, and disabling AutoRecover won't stop them from being created. The AutoRecover feature creates files with an extension of .asd, not .tmp. -- 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. drumkey35 wrote: I have several users that when they are in a document, making changes to it, sometimes it changes the name of the document to a temp file with a number (ex. WRC#####.tmp). This is very confusing for them when they have multiple documents open and have to switch from one to another. It usually happens when the document is open for more than 10 minutes. I went into the Save settings under ToolsOptions and set the AutoRecover time to more than 10 minutes but it still will rename the file after a certain amount of time. Is there a fix for this, without totally disabling the AutoRecover feature? I don't understand why it does this. Does anybody have any suggestions? |
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Hi Todd,
The explanation is perfectly clear, but I've never heard of this. It certainly isn't normal behavior for Word, and I can't tell you why it's happening or what you could do to prevent it. One thing that might be involved is an outdated or badly written add-in or macro. If there are any (see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...514521033.aspx for an extensive procedure for locating all add-ins), try disabling or uninstalling them, and then restoring one at a time and trying to reproduce the problem. You may be able to isolate one add-in as the cause -- or maybe not. drumkey35 wrote: I apologize, I may have explained this wrong. I understand how the temp files work in Word and why they are needed, but this isn't for temp files that are showing up inside of the folder. I'll give an example of what I'm asking, a user opens up a document, does some editing on it, then minimizes the window and it may sit open for some time. When she goes back to the document to work on it again, she brings the document window, that was minimized, back up. At the top of the document (on the title bar), instead of having the document title it will have something like "WRCxxxxx.tmp. She is then unable to save it under the original title without using "Save As" and jumping through many hoops. If she just hits save, it retains the temp file name. This is particularly frustrating for her when she has more than one document open and they all do the same thing. It makes it hard for her to distinguish one document from another. Does that make any sense? I hope I explained it a little better. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Todd "Jay Freedman" wrote: Peter has given you a method for not seeing these files, although they will still exist. It would also be good for you to understand what they are. Word is *not* changing the name of the document; it is creating temporary files that it requires in order to operate. As the article at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632 explains, many of these files must be in the same folder as the document, and it is not possible to put them somewhere else. All you can do is hide them. They also are not related in any way to AutoRecover, and disabling AutoRecover won't stop them from being created. The AutoRecover feature creates files with an extension of .asd, not .tmp. -- 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. drumkey35 wrote: I have several users that when they are in a document, making changes to it, sometimes it changes the name of the document to a temp file with a number (ex. WRC#####.tmp). This is very confusing for them when they have multiple documents open and have to switch from one to another. It usually happens when the document is open for more than 10 minutes. I went into the Save settings under ToolsOptions and set the AutoRecover time to more than 10 minutes but it still will rename the file after a certain amount of time. Is there a fix for this, without totally disabling the AutoRecover feature? I don't understand why it does this. Does anybody have any suggestions? |
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It certainly isn't normal behavior, and I don't have any better idea of the
cause than you do, but Todd is not the first to report this puzzling behavior (which is analogous to documents suddenly becoming read-only). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... Hi Todd, The explanation is perfectly clear, but I've never heard of this. It certainly isn't normal behavior for Word, and I can't tell you why it's happening or what you could do to prevent it. One thing that might be involved is an outdated or badly written add-in or macro. If there are any (see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...514521033.aspx for an extensive procedure for locating all add-ins), try disabling or uninstalling them, and then restoring one at a time and trying to reproduce the problem. You may be able to isolate one add-in as the cause -- or maybe not. drumkey35 wrote: I apologize, I may have explained this wrong. I understand how the temp files work in Word and why they are needed, but this isn't for temp files that are showing up inside of the folder. I'll give an example of what I'm asking, a user opens up a document, does some editing on it, then minimizes the window and it may sit open for some time. When she goes back to the document to work on it again, she brings the document window, that was minimized, back up. At the top of the document (on the title bar), instead of having the document title it will have something like "WRCxxxxx.tmp. She is then unable to save it under the original title without using "Save As" and jumping through many hoops. If she just hits save, it retains the temp file name. This is particularly frustrating for her when she has more than one document open and they all do the same thing. It makes it hard for her to distinguish one document from another. Does that make any sense? I hope I explained it a little better. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Todd "Jay Freedman" wrote: Peter has given you a method for not seeing these files, although they will still exist. It would also be good for you to understand what they are. Word is *not* changing the name of the document; it is creating temporary files that it requires in order to operate. As the article at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632 explains, many of these files must be in the same folder as the document, and it is not possible to put them somewhere else. All you can do is hide them. They also are not related in any way to AutoRecover, and disabling AutoRecover won't stop them from being created. The AutoRecover feature creates files with an extension of .asd, not .tmp. -- 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. drumkey35 wrote: I have several users that when they are in a document, making changes to it, sometimes it changes the name of the document to a temp file with a number (ex. WRC#####.tmp). This is very confusing for them when they have multiple documents open and have to switch from one to another. It usually happens when the document is open for more than 10 minutes. I went into the Save settings under ToolsOptions and set the AutoRecover time to more than 10 minutes but it still will rename the file after a certain amount of time. Is there a fix for this, without totally disabling the AutoRecover feature? I don't understand why it does this. Does anybody have any suggestions? |
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any updates on this yet? I have just started experiencing the same thing. Not
only does it rename the document the original document no longer exists in the folder it was originally saved to. When I am forced to save the document with a new name the original just isn't there. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It certainly isn't normal behavior, and I don't have any better idea of the cause than you do, but Todd is not the first to report this puzzling behavior (which is analogous to documents suddenly becoming read-only). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... Hi Todd, The explanation is perfectly clear, but I've never heard of this. It certainly isn't normal behavior for Word, and I can't tell you why it's happening or what you could do to prevent it. One thing that might be involved is an outdated or badly written add-in or macro. If there are any (see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...514521033.aspx for an extensive procedure for locating all add-ins), try disabling or uninstalling them, and then restoring one at a time and trying to reproduce the problem. You may be able to isolate one add-in as the cause -- or maybe not. drumkey35 wrote: I apologize, I may have explained this wrong. I understand how the temp files work in Word and why they are needed, but this isn't for temp files that are showing up inside of the folder. I'll give an example of what I'm asking, a user opens up a document, does some editing on it, then minimizes the window and it may sit open for some time. When she goes back to the document to work on it again, she brings the document window, that was minimized, back up. At the top of the document (on the title bar), instead of having the document title it will have something like "WRCxxxxx.tmp. She is then unable to save it under the original title without using "Save As" and jumping through many hoops. If she just hits save, it retains the temp file name. This is particularly frustrating for her when she has more than one document open and they all do the same thing. It makes it hard for her to distinguish one document from another. Does that make any sense? I hope I explained it a little better. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Todd "Jay Freedman" wrote: Peter has given you a method for not seeing these files, although they will still exist. It would also be good for you to understand what they are. Word is *not* changing the name of the document; it is creating temporary files that it requires in order to operate. As the article at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632 explains, many of these files must be in the same folder as the document, and it is not possible to put them somewhere else. All you can do is hide them. They also are not related in any way to AutoRecover, and disabling AutoRecover won't stop them from being created. The AutoRecover feature creates files with an extension of .asd, not .tmp. -- 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. drumkey35 wrote: I have several users that when they are in a document, making changes to it, sometimes it changes the name of the document to a temp file with a number (ex. WRC#####.tmp). This is very confusing for them when they have multiple documents open and have to switch from one to another. It usually happens when the document is open for more than 10 minutes. I went into the Save settings under ToolsOptions and set the AutoRecover time to more than 10 minutes but it still will rename the file after a certain amount of time. Is there a fix for this, without totally disabling the AutoRecover feature? I don't understand why it does this. Does anybody have any suggestions? |
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I haven't yet seen anyone mention a virus, trojan, worm, or any type of
malware either in a macro or the operating system itself. I think I'd throw my updated AV and full arsenal of spyware detectors at this before going much further. Worst case malware will be reasonably eliminated as long as good programs were used. I'd wonder if it happened to, say, Wordpad files saved with a .doc extension, or any other applications, too. Or a text file with a .doc extension too. If not, it'd be a word macro; if so, then the more likely system malware would be suspected. Either way, throw all the scanners at it. HTH, Twayne` "laurie_g" wrote in message any updates on this yet? I have just started experiencing the same thing. Not only does it rename the document the original document no longer exists in the folder it was originally saved to. When I am forced to save the document with a new name the original just isn't there. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It certainly isn't normal behavior, and I don't have any better idea of the cause than you do, but Todd is not the first to report this puzzling behavior (which is analogous to documents suddenly becoming read-only). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... Hi Todd, The explanation is perfectly clear, but I've never heard of this. It certainly isn't normal behavior for Word, and I can't tell you why it's happening or what you could do to prevent it. One thing that might be involved is an outdated or badly written add-in or macro. If there are any (see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...514521033.aspx for an extensive procedure for locating all add-ins), try disabling or uninstalling them, and then restoring one at a time and trying to reproduce the problem. You may be able to isolate one add-in as the cause -- or maybe not. drumkey35 wrote: I apologize, I may have explained this wrong. I understand how the temp files work in Word and why they are needed, but this isn't for temp files that are showing up inside of the folder. I'll give an example of what I'm asking, a user opens up a document, does some editing on it, then minimizes the window and it may sit open for some time. When she goes back to the document to work on it again, she brings the document window, that was minimized, back up. At the top of the document (on the title bar), instead of having the document title it will have something like "WRCxxxxx.tmp. She is then unable to save it under the original title without using "Save As" and jumping through many hoops. If she just hits save, it retains the temp file name. This is particularly frustrating for her when she has more than one document open and they all do the same thing. It makes it hard for her to distinguish one document from another. Does that make any sense? I hope I explained it a little better. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Todd "Jay Freedman" wrote: Peter has given you a method for not seeing these files, although they will still exist. It would also be good for you to understand what they are. Word is *not* changing the name of the document; it is creating temporary files that it requires in order to operate. As the article at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632 explains, many of these files must be in the same folder as the document, and it is not possible to put them somewhere else. All you can do is hide them. They also are not related in any way to AutoRecover, and disabling AutoRecover won't stop them from being created. The AutoRecover feature creates files with an extension of .asd, not .tmp. -- 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. drumkey35 wrote: I have several users that when they are in a document, making changes to it, sometimes it changes the name of the document to a temp file with a number (ex. WRC#####.tmp). This is very confusing for them when they have multiple documents open and have to switch from one to another. It usually happens when the document is open for more than 10 minutes. I went into the Save settings under ToolsOptions and set the AutoRecover time to more than 10 minutes but it still will rename the file after a certain amount of time. Is there a fix for this, without totally disabling the AutoRecover feature? I don't understand why it does this. Does anybody have any suggestions? |
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