Major errors saving to A:/

[Guest]

For reasons I can't begin to fathom, every Word document I try to save to the
floppy drive shows errors, and is subsequently automatically turned into a
..TMP file that is then rendered completely inaccessible. When attempting to
save a document the first error window says there is a file permission error.
The next says it cannot be saved because it's in use by another process, try
saving with a new name, A:/~WRLxxxx.tmp. Then the last window says to check
the drive to make sure the door is closed and contains the correct disk. Is
this a Windows or Word glitch, or with the drive itself? Whatever the cause
it's very aggravating. It has caused me a lot of retyping and lost time.
Thanks

 

[Graham Mayor]

Never ever read from, write to, or print from floppy with Word. These are
the most certain methods of ensuring document corruption.

Save to the hard disc and work on the document from there. Then *copy* the
file to the floppy disc.

This is equally relevant to other removable media such as CDRW.

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For reasons I can't begin to fathom, every Word document I try to
save to the floppy drive shows errors, and is subsequently
automatically turned into a .TMP file that is then rendered
completely inaccessible. When attempting to save a document the
first error window says there is a file permission error. The next
says it cannot be saved because it's in use by another process, try
saving with a new name, A:/~WRLxxxx.tmp. Then the last window says
to check the drive to make sure the door is closed and contains the
correct disk. Is this a Windows or Word glitch, or with the drive
itself? Whatever the cause it's very aggravating. It has caused me
a lot of retyping and lost time. Thanks

No, it's cockpit error. Word will try to put all of the temporary files and
scratchpads it makes and uses on the floppy too, so that a small file
quickly becomes too large for the floppy; among other things.

Only work on your hard drive. Then after saving, COPY the file to your
floppy.

HTH
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