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files are being saved to a folder I didnt' create, why?
the defaul (active) folder is "my documents" however, when I go to save as,
the automatic folder that comes up is a folder I never created and is listed as a"briefcase" type. I am also then not able to always find this folder unless I go to "my recent documents" when I go to open. can someone explain what this folder is, because other things are in here and I don't know if I can delete the entire folder |
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files are being saved to a folder I didnt' create, why?
What is the path for "Word documents" on the File Locations tab of Tools |
Options? That will be the default save folder for *new* documents. The default folder for existing documents, however (when you use Save As), is the folder where the open document is stored. If you have opened a document from an email attachment, this will be a temp folder; if you save the document there, it will be deleted when you close Word, so you *must* navigate to My Documents or some other folder. If you open a file from a removable disk (which you shouldn't do), then Word will default to saving there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "lisa" wrote in message ... the defaul (active) folder is "my documents" however, when I go to save as, the automatic folder that comes up is a folder I never created and is listed as a"briefcase" type. I am also then not able to always find this folder unless I go to "my recent documents" when I go to open. can someone explain what this folder is, because other things are in here and I don't know if I can delete the entire folder |
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files are being saved to a folder I didnt' create, why?
I am having a similar problem
when i trash email it goes into a folder that is saved on my computer ( i did not designate this to happen) i recently found this folder by accident and it had 2 yrs worth of deleted emails of over 1.6 GB...no wonder my computer is running so slow the problem is...i am not sure if the folder contains only email...it wount let me open the files ( does not know what program to use) i would like to just ppurge the entire folder the folder is marks db any suggestions? d -- Dee from NJ "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What is the path for "Word documents" on the File Locations tab of Tools | Options? That will be the default save folder for *new* documents. The default folder for existing documents, however (when you use Save As), is the folder where the open document is stored. If you have opened a document from an email attachment, this will be a temp folder; if you save the document there, it will be deleted when you close Word, so you *must* navigate to My Documents or some other folder. If you open a file from a removable disk (which you shouldn't do), then Word will default to saving there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "lisa" wrote in message ... the defaul (active) folder is "my documents" however, when I go to save as, the automatic folder that comes up is a folder I never created and is listed as a"briefcase" type. I am also then not able to always find this folder unless I go to "my recent documents" when I go to open. can someone explain what this folder is, because other things are in here and I don't know if I can delete the entire folder |
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files are being saved to a folder I didnt' create, why?
Unless you explicitly delete files (by pressing Shift+Delete) or tell
Windows to skip it, they go to the Recycle Bin. Deleted emails go to the Delete Items folder unless you press Shift while deleting. The folder you describe may be something created by a document management application. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Dee" wrote in message ... I am having a similar problem when i trash email it goes into a folder that is saved on my computer ( i did not designate this to happen) i recently found this folder by accident and it had 2 yrs worth of deleted emails of over 1.6 GB...no wonder my computer is running so slow the problem is...i am not sure if the folder contains only email...it wount let me open the files ( does not know what program to use) i would like to just ppurge the entire folder the folder is marks db any suggestions? d -- Dee from NJ "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What is the path for "Word documents" on the File Locations tab of Tools | Options? That will be the default save folder for *new* documents. The default folder for existing documents, however (when you use Save As), is the folder where the open document is stored. If you have opened a document from an email attachment, this will be a temp folder; if you save the document there, it will be deleted when you close Word, so you *must* navigate to My Documents or some other folder. If you open a file from a removable disk (which you shouldn't do), then Word will default to saving there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "lisa" wrote in message ... the defaul (active) folder is "my documents" however, when I go to save as, the automatic folder that comes up is a folder I never created and is listed as a"briefcase" type. I am also then not able to always find this folder unless I go to "my recent documents" when I go to open. can someone explain what this folder is, because other things are in here and I don't know if I can delete the entire folder |
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files are being saved to a folder I didnt' create, why?
I'm sorry
i failed to include that this is a problem with MSN email it doesnt involve Win XP recycle bin it is a folder set up within MSN called TRASH. actually there are 2 folders one saves email to MSN storage whcih is what i prefer the other section -which was already there upon instalalation of MSN -saves emails to folders on the computer HD. Supposedly you can designate where you want to save them I never designated to save to my HD what is happeneing is: i Trash an email...it goes into the MSN trash folder when i empty that folder it is apparently going into the "Trash/folder on my computer" I do not know how to avoid this the bigger problem is.... i cannot get rid of them once they are in the folder on my computer they are automatically going into a db file path is: documents & settings/owner/ local settings/application data/microsoft/MSN/db i need to know if i can purge that file without harm files within that folder cannot be opened to check (Windows message-can't find program that created it) the properties window indicates the file size of this folder to be 1.6GB i need to get rid of it to free up space-but need to know if that folder contains something crucial to running the MSN software i hope this clarifies the situation thanks for your help d -- Dee from NJ "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Unless you explicitly delete files (by pressing Shift+Delete) or tell Windows to skip it, they go to the Recycle Bin. Deleted emails go to the Delete Items folder unless you press Shift while deleting. The folder you describe may be something created by a document management application. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Dee" wrote in message ... I am having a similar problem when i trash email it goes into a folder that is saved on my computer ( i did not designate this to happen) i recently found this folder by accident and it had 2 yrs worth of deleted emails of over 1.6 GB...no wonder my computer is running so slow the problem is...i am not sure if the folder contains only email...it wount let me open the files ( does not know what program to use) i would like to just ppurge the entire folder the folder is marks db any suggestions? d -- Dee from NJ "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What is the path for "Word documents" on the File Locations tab of Tools | Options? That will be the default save folder for *new* documents. The default folder for existing documents, however (when you use Save As), is the folder where the open document is stored. If you have opened a document from an email attachment, this will be a temp folder; if you save the document there, it will be deleted when you close Word, so you *must* navigate to My Documents or some other folder. If you open a file from a removable disk (which you shouldn't do), then Word will default to saving there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "lisa" wrote in message ... the defaul (active) folder is "my documents" however, when I go to save as, the automatic folder that comes up is a folder I never created and is listed as a"briefcase" type. I am also then not able to always find this folder unless I go to "my recent documents" when I go to open. can someone explain what this folder is, because other things are in here and I don't know if I can delete the entire folder |
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files are being saved to a folder I didnt' create, why?
I don't see what this has to do with Word? You should never open Word
documents from e-mail applications. Save them to the hard drive and open them from there. Rename the folder to (say) olddb and then see what happens for a few days normal use with the MSN application. If nothing untoward happens, delete it. If it causes a problem, rename it back again to db. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Dee wrote: I'm sorry i failed to include that this is a problem with MSN email it doesnt involve Win XP recycle bin it is a folder set up within MSN called TRASH. actually there are 2 folders one saves email to MSN storage whcih is what i prefer the other section -which was already there upon instalalation of MSN -saves emails to folders on the computer HD. Supposedly you can designate where you want to save them I never designated to save to my HD what is happeneing is: i Trash an email...it goes into the MSN trash folder when i empty that folder it is apparently going into the "Trash/folder on my computer" I do not know how to avoid this the bigger problem is.... i cannot get rid of them once they are in the folder on my computer they are automatically going into a db file path is: documents & settings/owner/ local settings/application data/microsoft/MSN/db i need to know if i can purge that file without harm files within that folder cannot be opened to check (Windows message-can't find program that created it) the properties window indicates the file size of this folder to be 1.6GB i need to get rid of it to free up space-but need to know if that folder contains something crucial to running the MSN software i hope this clarifies the situation thanks for your help d Unless you explicitly delete files (by pressing Shift+Delete) or tell Windows to skip it, they go to the Recycle Bin. Deleted emails go to the Delete Items folder unless you press Shift while deleting. The folder you describe may be something created by a document management application. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Dee" wrote in message ... I am having a similar problem when i trash email it goes into a folder that is saved on my computer ( i did not designate this to happen) i recently found this folder by accident and it had 2 yrs worth of deleted emails of over 1.6 GB...no wonder my computer is running so slow the problem is...i am not sure if the folder contains only email...it wount let me open the files ( does not know what program to use) i would like to just ppurge the entire folder the folder is marks db any suggestions? d -- Dee from NJ "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What is the path for "Word documents" on the File Locations tab of Tools Options? That will be the default save folder for *new* documents. The default folder for existing documents, however (when you use Save As), is the folder where the open document is stored. If you have opened a document from an email attachment, this will be a temp folder; if you save the document there, it will be deleted when you close Word, so you *must* navigate to My Documents or some other folder. If you open a file from a removable disk (which you shouldn't do), then Word will default to saving there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "lisa" wrote in message ... the defaul (active) folder is "my documents" however, when I go to save as, the automatic folder that comes up is a folder I never created and is listed as a"briefcase" type. I am also then not able to always find this folder unless I go to "my recent documents" when I go to open. can someone explain what this folder is, because other things are in here and I don't know if I can delete the entire folder |
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files are being saved to a folder I didnt' create, why?
i applogize...somehow with all my searching for a solution-i got off trqack
and wound up in the ms Word discussion I did not belong here and should not have posted here my problem pertains to MSN Premium online software -- Dee from NJ "Graham Mayor" wrote: I don't see what this has to do with Word? You should never open Word documents from e-mail applications. Save them to the hard drive and open them from there. Rename the folder to (say) olddb and then see what happens for a few days normal use with the MSN application. If nothing untoward happens, delete it. If it causes a problem, rename it back again to db. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Dee wrote: I'm sorry i failed to include that this is a problem with MSN email it doesnt involve Win XP recycle bin it is a folder set up within MSN called TRASH. actually there are 2 folders one saves email to MSN storage whcih is what i prefer the other section -which was already there upon instalalation of MSN -saves emails to folders on the computer HD. Supposedly you can designate where you want to save them I never designated to save to my HD what is happeneing is: i Trash an email...it goes into the MSN trash folder when i empty that folder it is apparently going into the "Trash/folder on my computer" I do not know how to avoid this the bigger problem is.... i cannot get rid of them once they are in the folder on my computer they are automatically going into a db file path is: documents & settings/owner/ local settings/application data/microsoft/MSN/db i need to know if i can purge that file without harm files within that folder cannot be opened to check (Windows message-can't find program that created it) the properties window indicates the file size of this folder to be 1.6GB i need to get rid of it to free up space-but need to know if that folder contains something crucial to running the MSN software i hope this clarifies the situation thanks for your help d Unless you explicitly delete files (by pressing Shift+Delete) or tell Windows to skip it, they go to the Recycle Bin. Deleted emails go to the Delete Items folder unless you press Shift while deleting. The folder you describe may be something created by a document management application. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Dee" wrote in message ... I am having a similar problem when i trash email it goes into a folder that is saved on my computer ( i did not designate this to happen) i recently found this folder by accident and it had 2 yrs worth of deleted emails of over 1.6 GB...no wonder my computer is running so slow the problem is...i am not sure if the folder contains only email...it wount let me open the files ( does not know what program to use) i would like to just ppurge the entire folder the folder is marks db any suggestions? d -- Dee from NJ "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What is the path for "Word documents" on the File Locations tab of Tools Options? That will be the default save folder for *new* documents. The default folder for existing documents, however (when you use Save As), is the folder where the open document is stored. If you have opened a document from an email attachment, this will be a temp folder; if you save the document there, it will be deleted when you close Word, so you *must* navigate to My Documents or some other folder. If you open a file from a removable disk (which you shouldn't do), then Word will default to saving there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "lisa" wrote in message ... the defaul (active) folder is "my documents" however, when I go to save as, the automatic folder that comes up is a folder I never created and is listed as a"briefcase" type. I am also then not able to always find this folder unless I go to "my recent documents" when I go to open. can someone explain what this folder is, because other things are in here and I don't know if I can delete the entire folder |
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