~$

[Guest]

I do not know how, but my .doc file somehow converted into file with characters ~$ at the begining of the origin file name, like this:
plan2004.doc converted into ~$plan2004.doc

Now, when I open this file, I see nothing but some unintelligable characters! The origin conten has gone!!
I want to recover my origin file, but I don't know how? Why did this happen?
What does this characters ~$ mean?
The file is very, very important to me, so please, somebody help!

 

[Pat Garard]

G'Day Michael,

While you are using Word, it opens temporary files
as you work.

The files that you describe are typical temporary files
and ought not concern you - apart from occasionally
clearing them out. YOU SHOULD NOT BE
OPENING THEM.

Your main Word Files should not have these names,
and should be quite separate WITH THEIR ORIGINAL
NAMES.

Has Word been crashing/hanging???
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Australia

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[Guest]

Hi Pat,

Well, here is the situation. The file belongs to an account manager in my company, and I've been asked to help about this. It is very important!
As she described, the file was active, and while she was moving some papers and documents across her desk (and keyboard), somehow she hooked the keyboard, the short BEEP sounded loud, and that was it. I suppose that the Word has been crashing, but it is interesting that the origin file is no longer available on her comp!There is only temp file with ~$, and the origin has disappeared! Just that! I'm not a novice with these things, so you have to trust me. And that is the problem: I have temp file, I do not have origin! Is there any possibility to bring back origin with all content?

 

[Guest]

Ive done some checking, and found that word files marked
with a "$" have been determined my Word to be brilliant
pieces of work. Bill Gates had them add this feature in
Word 2003, so that he could identify brilliant ideas and
bootleg them for himself to further his empire. Early
results are promising.

-----Original Message-----
I do not know how, but my .doc file somehow converted

into file with characters ~$ at the begining of the
origin file name, like this:

plan2004.doc converted into ~$plan2004.doc

Now, when I open this file, I see nothing but some

unintelligable characters! The origin conten has gone!!

 

[Guest]

Hi Everyone,

I did it, I got me out of this problem. I can't believe it was so simple!
Well, here it is. As we all know, there has to be a .tmp file that Word makes, and thx God this is very useful in case of Word (or comp) crashing. It is true that I only had to deal with 2 files: ~$plan2004.doc and plan2004.doc. And there was no other .tmp file, at frst sight. In fact, there was, but I had to dig it from the hard (God knows where I found it!), and it was hidden attributed. And, that is right, this file is named something like this ~wrd0002.tmp. It is slightly different from original (formated adds were not the same), but the content is untouched, and that is the most important. The rest was very easy...formating the content...save as...and that's it.
Thx Everyone! Now, I can keep my job!

 

[Guest]

I'm glad to hear you were able to recover the document.

More than likely you found ~wrd002.tmp in the same folder as the document.

Out of all the temp files Word creates, this is the only one (~wrd*.tmp) that you could recover all of the document content.

Word creates this temp file Word when a document it saved. It creates/writes the temp file in the document folder, deletes the original, and moves the temp file to take the original's place.

The other temp file, called the Owner file, (~$*.do?) is created when you open a previously saved document and all it contains is user info.

This file is used if you attempt to open the document a second time, such as in a network environment. If Word finds the Owner file then you encounter a message along the lines of "Document in use by <User Name>".

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[Guest]

So is there no way to recover the original text from a tmp file named wrs or
wrf? I am trying to recover a file I accidentally saved over.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The only ones I've ever found to contain document content are the
~$wrlxxxx.tmp files, each of which is a complete previous save.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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So is there no way to recover the original text from a tmp file named wrs or
wrf? I am trying to recover a file I accidentally saved over.

creates/writes the temp file in the document folder, deletes the original,
and moves the temp file to take the original's place.such as in a network environment. If Word finds the Owner file then you
Word makes, and thx God this is very useful in case of Word (or comp)
crashing. It is true that I only had to deal with 2 files: ~$plan2004.doc
and plan2004.doc. And there was no other .tmp file, at frst sight. In
fact, there was, but I had to dig it from the hard (God knows where I found
it!), and it was hidden attributed. And, that is right, this file is named
something like this ~wrd0002.tmp. It is slightly different from original
(formated adds were not the same), but the content is untouched, and that is
the most important. The rest was very easy...formating the content...save
as...and that's it.

 

[Guest]

I have been reading the posts about how to get the original document back
when Word makes a TMP file. I typed a document in word and my computer
rebooted overnight, but my document did not save. It is quite lengthy and I
will have to retype it if I cannot extract the original text. One post
alluded to getting the document back, but it did not explain how. Can you
help me?

Gena Meeks

 

[Graham Mayor]

Rebooting should clear any temporary files. If you didn't save the document,
there is nothing to recover.

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[Klaus Linke]

Hi Gena, Graham,

You're probably not working with Word2003? That would try to recover the doc
the next time you start Word.

If the machine crashed overnight, it's just about certain that Word left
temporary files.
And I don't think rebooting does anything to temp files?
Not even restarting/quitting Word (before 2003) would do that: I get about
100 temp files a month to clean up on my machine from crashes.

You should search for ~*.*,*.tmp, sort the results by date, and then check
the list for files that have about the right size and time stamp.
You'll need to include hidden files and folders under the advanced search
options, I guess.

If they contain something useful, you can likely just open them in Word (...
*not* using "Recover text from any file": that would loose all formatting).

Regards,
Klaus

 

[Guest]

I have read the answers to this post but not sure the answer I need is there.
I have upgraded from ME to XP
My MS Word program is Word 2002 SP3
When I open a document (eg: The Document) in Word it immediately saves a 1k
document with the name ~$e Document (tilde and dollar sign replacing first
two letters of title) in the same file as the original document. Opening this
new document shows the information I have on File/Properties/Summary for
Author and Company and nothing else.
Problem: Unless I delete this 1k document before I start working on the main
document the computer soon locks and can only be reactivated through
switching off the power. Any suggestions?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Steve,

The 'owner files' (~$*.*) are part of the Word temporary file structure it uses for normal operations explained here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211632/en-us?FR=1
It's not actually a document to be opened, but a placeholder to help prevent attempts to edit more than one copy of a document at
the same time (which could result in losing document contents).

The Windows version doesn't matter in the creation of the temporary files, but the settings for Windows Explorer do show hidden
files does affect if you see these temporary files or not.

Normally, when you close Word all files found from Start=>Search using
~$*.*
should be found only in or can be sent to your Recycle bin.
If those files aren't being deleted then it can be from Word not being shutdown properly, or folder permissions that don't allow
these to be deleted.

===========
I have read the answers to this post but not sure the answer I need is there.
I have upgraded from ME to XP
My MS Word program is Word 2002 SP3
When I open a document (eg: The Document) in Word it immediately saves a 1k
document with the name ~$e Document (tilde and dollar sign replacing first
two letters of title) in the same file as the original document. Opening this
new document shows the information I have on File/Properties/Summary for
Author and Company and nothing else.
Problem: Unless I delete this 1k document before I start working on the main
document the computer soon locks and can only be reactivated through
switching off the power. Any suggestions? >>

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is the "owner file," and you should not be able to delete it while the
associated document is open; see “Description of how Word creates temporary
files†at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632.

If you are experiencing trouble with the document, it is *not* caused by the
presence of this file, which is required. You may want to explore whether
the document is corrupt; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Jay Freedman]

Hi Steve,

In addition to what Bob said, read
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm. The presence or
absence of any particular owner file shouldn't cause Word to lock up, but
you will have trouble if there are tons of these and other temporary files
that were orphaned when you powered off.

After cleaning up the temp files, if Word still locks up, see
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm.

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Microsoft Word MVP
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[Guest]

Thanks for all your suggestions, I will investigate them.
However, this identical 1k file is automatically generated with any of my MS
Word files I open. I can also delete it without getting the message that it,
or the main file, is open. This is while the original main file is open. I
have the same Word program on my laptop but it does not act this way.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Steve,

Are you referring to the locking up or that you aren't seeing the owner files? If you haven't set Windows explorer to show hidden
files you won't see the owner files.

============
Thanks for all your suggestions, I will investigate them.
However, this identical 1k file is automatically generated with any of my MS
Word files I open. I can also delete it without getting the message that it,
or the main file, is open. This is while the original main file is open. I
have the same Word program on my laptop but it does not act this way. >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Guest]

Bob:
Have been away for a few days.
This is what I have to do when working on Word if I wish to avoid my
computer locking up:
1. Go to file "Open" and get the document I need.
2. Immediately go back to file "Open" where on the list of files is a new
one (1K) starting with ~$ in place of the first two characters of my open
document name. My original file name is still listed normally.
3. Right click and delete this ~$ file which sends it to the recycle bin.
4. Close the list of files.
5. Work on the original document.
If I forget to do steps 2 to 4, at some point the computer locks. I have to
switch it off, re-boot and recover the file I am working on.
Thanks
Steve

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You should not be able to delete this "owner" file while the document is
open, and I'm very surprised that you can. See “Description of how Word
creates temporary files†at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Beth Melton]

You can delete the Owner files. I'm not sure what would happen in a
shared environment if it was deleted and someone else tried to open
the file, though.

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