I'd like to store all backup doc files in the same folder

[Sjoerd]

Is that possible ?

I would like to specify one folder where all my auto-backup doc files go.
Now the backups go to ther folder i create my document in.

Is that possible ?

I use Office 2003 pro

Any help / tips are welcome !

Thanks

 

[Hernandez.Lisa]

TOOLS, OPTIONS, FILE LOCATIONS will allow to specify where your
auto-recover files go, but if you are talking about *.wbk files, I
don't think you have that option straight out in Word. You may need to
look at some VBA or add-in solution.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Is that possible ?

I would like to specify one folder where all my auto-backup doc files
go. Now the backups go to ther folder i create my document in.

Is that possible ?

I use Office 2003 pro

Any help / tips are welcome !

Thanks

There isn't any way to change the folder. The "auto-backup" file (*.wbk)
isn't a copy of the document, it's simply the document file itself, renamed
in place.

One alternative is to set up a macro that saves each document to two places,
as shown at http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm. The copy to the
second folder is in addition to the "auto-backup".

Another alternative -- one I would consider less desirable -- is a macro
that runs when you close a document, and moves the "auto-backup" to a
specified folder. As Graham discusses in the article I mentioned, the
"auto-backup" isn't a true backup, but the document as it existed at the
time of the previous save. Any work you've done between saves won't be in
the backup. That can be useful if you want to throw away the recent changes
and revert to the previsou version, but it's a disaster if you want to
retrieve the changes.

Also, have you considered that putting all the backups in a single folder
means that you can't keep backups of two documents that have the same
filename but different paths? As you save each document, its backup would
overwrite any backup of the other document. This may not be a problem for
you, but it is a problem in general.

 

[Sjoerd]

TOOLS, OPTIONS, FILE LOCATIONS will allow to specify where your
auto-recover files go, but if you are talking about *.wbk files, I
don't think you have that option straight out in Word. You may need to
look at some VBA or add-in solution.

Thanks a lot for your answer, unfortunatly i was talking about *.wbk files.

 

[Sjoerd]

Thanks a lot for your answer, i'm going to look into the sites you provided
!

 

[Graham Mayor]

This is not possible - and note that wbk files are not backups of the
document, but backups of the last previously saved version of the document.
For true backups, see http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm

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[Graham Mayor]

Oops - I hadn't spotted that Jay had already responded

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