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Word 2003 deleting files
Recently, Microsoft Word has gotten into the nasty habit of delting files.
During an auto-save or a deliberate save, it will randomly fling error messages at the user (something along the lines of being unable to locate the file or Hard Drive.. I'm not certain as I've been too busy being furious at the loss of work) and shut itself down. The file I was working on vanishes, leaving only a tranparent Word file for 1kb, with a partial filename headed by a ~$ and a matching TEMP file of the size of the file that just vanished. Rebooting Word does not cause it to auto-recover and the TMP file cannot be opened by Word or Notepad. I simply get an 'Access Denied' message. I don't know if this is a problem with the software, a bug or some problem with the harddrive. Regardless I need a way to get the information out of the TMP files when it happens. Has anyone had experience with this? Any advice? |
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Word 2003 deleting files
I would try using the Repair function in the Control Panel/Programs and
Features app. Rightclick Office or Word in the list and it should have an option to repair it. -- click the Ratings button. Voting helps the web interface. http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...help_en-us.htm see ''rate a post'' Mark L. Ferguson "DeadDancers" wrote in message ... Recently, Microsoft Word has gotten into the nasty habit of delting files. During an auto-save or a deliberate save, it will randomly fling error messages at the user (something along the lines of being unable to locate the file or Hard Drive.. I'm not certain as I've been too busy being furious at the loss of work) and shut itself down. The file I was working on vanishes, leaving only a tranparent Word file for 1kb, with a partial filename headed by a ~$ and a matching TEMP file of the size of the file that just vanished. Rebooting Word does not cause it to auto-recover and the TMP file cannot be opened by Word or Notepad. I simply get an 'Access Denied' message. I don't know if this is a problem with the software, a bug or some problem with the harddrive. Regardless I need a way to get the information out of the TMP files when it happens. Has anyone had experience with this? Any advice? |
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Word 2003 deleting files
Thanks.
I went into Add/Delete programs and hit change, then the repair button.. managed to hunt down the CD and now it's spent about half an hour 'Waiting for cabinets to be cached to local installation source' and I'm worried it's going to croak on me.. I'll let you know if it works out. Thanks for the advice. -V "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote: I would try using the Repair function in the Control Panel/Programs and Features app. Rightclick Office or Word in the list and it should have an option to repair it. -- click the Ratings button. Voting helps the web interface. http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...help_en-us.htm see ''rate a post'' Mark L. Ferguson "DeadDancers" wrote in message ... Recently, Microsoft Word has gotten into the nasty habit of delting files. During an auto-save or a deliberate save, it will randomly fling error messages at the user (something along the lines of being unable to locate the file or Hard Drive.. I'm not certain as I've been too busy being furious at the loss of work) and shut itself down. The file I was working on vanishes, leaving only a tranparent Word file for 1kb, with a partial filename headed by a ~$ and a matching TEMP file of the size of the file that just vanished. Rebooting Word does not cause it to auto-recover and the TMP file cannot be opened by Word or Notepad. I simply get an 'Access Denied' message. I don't know if this is a problem with the software, a bug or some problem with the harddrive. Regardless I need a way to get the information out of the TMP files when it happens. Has anyone had experience with this? Any advice? |
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Word 2003 deleting files
Unfortunately, the repair couldn't work, due to some foolish design.
I looked around and it appears that the ZF561407.cab (needed as part of the repair process) file is NOT on the software cd.. and since it wasnt on my computer or any other that I have, I turned to the net. The only source I found for it (harrythompson.com) contained 'the file' that my Norton said was full of very nasty things. So, I won't be installing THAT. Thanks for your advice, dude, but at the moment it looks like I'm outta luck. It wants a file I can't give it. -V "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote: I would try using the Repair function in the Control Panel/Programs and Features app. Rightclick Office or Word in the list and it should have an option to repair it. -- click the Ratings button. Voting helps the web interface. http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...help_en-us.htm see ''rate a post'' Mark L. Ferguson "DeadDancers" wrote in message ... Recently, Microsoft Word has gotten into the nasty habit of delting files. During an auto-save or a deliberate save, it will randomly fling error messages at the user (something along the lines of being unable to locate the file or Hard Drive.. I'm not certain as I've been too busy being furious at the loss of work) and shut itself down. The file I was working on vanishes, leaving only a tranparent Word file for 1kb, with a partial filename headed by a ~$ and a matching TEMP file of the size of the file that just vanished. Rebooting Word does not cause it to auto-recover and the TMP file cannot be opened by Word or Notepad. I simply get an 'Access Denied' message. I don't know if this is a problem with the software, a bug or some problem with the harddrive. Regardless I need a way to get the information out of the TMP files when it happens. Has anyone had experience with this? Any advice? |
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