Overwritten document

[Michael Demski]

I have a user who accidently overwrote data to a file
stored on a floppy diskette. The file was created using
Word 2002. Is there any way to recover the erroneously
overwritten file?

 

[Guest]

The easiest (and only) way I know of is to re-type it

Hope that helps

 

[Charles Kenyon]

No. In addition...

If you want to be able to use your documents, when working with in Word, act
as if your floppy drive does not exist. (This applies to CDRW/CDR drives as
well.)
Don't use Word to:
Open a document on a floppy
Print a document on a floppy
Edit a document on a floppy
Save a document to a floppy (not even a copy)

Word regularly trashes documents on floppy drives!

Instead, work on the document using your hard drive. Copy it back and forth
using Windows.

I know that for some with shared computers (libraries) this is a tough
prescription. All I can recommend for that is to use a brand new formatted
disk each time you save and don't do any editing.


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[Carl.]

Word regularly trashes documents on floppy drives!

Any idea why that is? Someone I knew used word documents on floppies all
the time, and sure enough the disks would have unrepairable issues in less
than a month (sometimes much less). I always wondered, since the .doc files
were usually no more than 30k and I assumed memory was not a problem.

 

[Graham Mayor]

The reason that it trashes files is that Word not only creates the document,
but a selection of temporary files, the size of which is unknown in the
working folder. When those files cannot be created the document is
irretrievably corrupted.

Floppies are Ok for transferring files that will fit, but should never be
used to open or save documents.

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[Carl.]

The reason that it trashes files is that Word not only creates the document,
but a selection of temporary files, the size of which is unknown in the
working folder. When those files cannot be created the document is
irretrievably corrupted.

Floppies are Ok for transferring files that will fit, but should never be
used to open or save documents.

Thanks, it all makes sense now. Someone I know that regularly used floppies
in this way (and had floppy disk errors) always seemed to have a bunch of
those scrappy temp files floating around (that would not go away when Word
was closed), so that solves two mysteries at once.