~$

[Beth Melton]

That is strange. Have you tried starting Word in Safe Mode to see if
it occurs? I'm wondering if a third-party add-in could be causing the
problem. To start Word in Safe Mode, hold Ctrl while starting Word and
keep it held down until you're prompted to start in Safe Mode. Then to
verify, the title bar should read Safe Mode.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Is this new? I thought I used to get an error message if I tried to delete
the owner file for an open document.

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[Beth Melton]

I'm really not sure - I think it might be fairly new. Perhaps the
behavior was changed with the multi-user editing of documents in Word
2002??
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=292122

I've deleted the owner file in the past when I've encountered "this
file is opened by another user" message after I've made editing
changes to a global template (in a network environment when someone
has Word running and the template is loaded) to fool Word into
thinking it wasn't actually open so I can save my changes. This method
doesn't always work - I have encountered "permission denied" errors
occasionally - and I when it does work I have to find the computer
that does have Word running and carefully read the messages, something
like "this document was changed since it was opened, do you want to
update or discard changes, or my changes will end up being
overwritten.

Now that I think about it, maybe I do have an idea of what would
happen in a shared environment.

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[Jay Freedman]

Hi Beth,

I saw exactly that behavior today. I have Word 2003 in my main
partition and Word 2007 B2TR in a Virtual PC partition. I had saved a
document from 2007 into a shared folder. Later, forgetting that the
document was still open in 2007, I tried to open it in 2003. I thought
I'd fake it out by deleting the owner file, which I was able to do,
but it still gave me a permission-denied error. I couldn't open it
until I went back to 2007 and closed the document.

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[Beth Melton]

I think the success rate has something to do with it being a global
template and if the template was actually edited by the original
"owner". I don't know for sure - usually when I'm in that situation I
don't have time to start experimenting which is the underlying reason
why I came up with the idea to try it in the first place. <g>

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[McTrevor]

Hi everybody!

I was assigned to the unhonorable task of finding a bug in a running softwaresystem that appears very sporadically. The software starts word, fills a document, prints it and closes word. This works fine 99% of the time. But sometimes only an empty document is printed. Users have given the hint, that some tmp-files are found after printing an empty document. The files are named like "~wrf0000.tmp", "~wrf0001.tmp", "~wrs0001.tmp" and "~wrs0002.tmp". Deleting these files seems to delay further errors, but this is just a subjective observation and not necessarily true.

I haven´t found much yet about this problem, maybe someone here can give me hint.

Thanks in advance.

Christian

 

[McTrevor]

No suggestions anyone?

 

[meowkatt2002]

Where & how do I look for the original file? One of mine, with my passwords
on it, somehow changed & has the $. When I open it it comes out in rectangles
& a box to choose languages. Which ever language I choose it still isn't my
document. Can someone give me exact directions to try & find my doc? I
desperatly need it.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

The original file should be in the same folder as the ~$ temporary owner
file. The ~$ temporary owner file doesn't contain any part of your
original file, so it won't do you any good to open it.

If the original file isn't there, then restore it from a recent backup
of desperately needed files. There are two kinds of computer users:
those who have a backup, and those who wish they did.

 

[meowkatt2002]

Thanks. I got it. I had to get it through MyDocuments page not from the Word
page, but it worked.