word 2003 ~wrl.tmp files

[Guest]

Hi, I recently upgraded from office 2000 to 2003 and now I have these
annoying temp files to deal with. At my work, we have scripts running from
another program that generates large (200-1000) page reports which take
anywhere between 3 to 18 hours run. When these reports are due, we run many
reports simultaneously from multiple locations. The scripts have been setup
so that all documents are saved in the same directory. Now my problem is
tremendous, as word tries to create multiple temps for each document which
cannot be touched until either the document is generated successfully or
crashed. But if another document is still running, I still can't touch the
temp files because I dont want to accidentally remove some other doc's
files...

Is there in the kingdom of Microsoft - NO OTHER WAY to go back to the method
of word 2000, which kept copy of only recent one or two saves in the tmp
files???? I really need this one resolved and any help will be appreciated.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

All versions of Word produce these temp files.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Hi, I recently upgraded from office 2000 to 2003 and now I have these
annoying temp files to deal with. At my work, we have scripts running from
another program that generates large (200-1000) page reports which take
anywhere between 3 to 18 hours run. When these reports are due, we run many
reports simultaneously from multiple locations. The scripts have been setup
so that all documents are saved in the same directory. Now my problem is
tremendous, as word tries to create multiple temps for each document which
cannot be touched until either the document is generated successfully or
crashed. But if another document is still running, I still can't touch the
temp files because I dont want to accidentally remove some other doc's
files...

Is there in the kingdom of Microsoft - NO OTHER WAY to go back to the method
of word 2000, which kept copy of only recent one or two saves in the tmp
files???? I really need this one resolved and any help will be

appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Well may be then it must have been a setting issue because word 2000 for us
only produced one or two temp files at a time when the document was open and
being written to. Word 2003 produces thousands.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Word 2003 produces one every time you save. Perhaps your users are getting
better at saving frequently. Also, I understand that these files are not
displayed unless you have the Windows option to display hidden and system
files enabled. I wouldn't know, since that's one of the first things I
always change in Windows.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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all may benefit.

 

[Guest]

Actually, it's not users. As I described initially, we are generating reports
automatically that go on for ever, frequently saving the documents. The
problem is not annoyance, it's space. When our scripts are generating 3 or 4
documents in the same location at the same time, as much as about 22000 temp
files are generated and even though they may be small, it increases our
harddisk size by over a GB. Which is why, I want to know if there is any way
to tell word 2003 to only remember the latest temp file just like word 2000.

 

[Guest]

See new post "Eureka! How to delete/remove ~WRLxxxx.tmp" - hope this helps
[also indirectly explains why you are getting so many...]

 

[Guest]

See Eureka! How to delete/remove ~WRLxxxx.tmp - hope this helps [probably
also explains why you are getting so many files...]

 

[Guest]

See Eureka! How to delete/remove ~WRLxxxx.tmp - hope this helps [probably
also explains why you are getting so many files...]

 

[Guest]

I didn't deliberately post 3 times - the 1st 2 attempts the site told me the
post had failed!