Word 2003 deleting files

[DeadDancers]

Recently, Microsoft Word has gotten into the nasty habit of delting files.

During an auto-save or a deliberate save, it will randomly fling error
messages at the user (something along the lines of being unable to locate the
file or Hard Drive.. I'm not certain as I've been too busy being furious at
the loss of work) and shut itself down.

The file I was working on vanishes, leaving only a tranparent Word file for
1kb, with a partial filename headed by a ~$ and a matching TEMP file of the
size of the file that just vanished.

Rebooting Word does not cause it to auto-recover and the TMP file cannot be
opened by Word or Notepad. I simply get an 'Access Denied' message.

I don't know if this is a problem with the software, a bug or some problem
with the harddrive. Regardless I need a way to get the information out of the
TMP files when it happens.

Has anyone had experience with this? Any advice?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

I would try using the Repair function in the Control Panel/Programs and
Features app. Rightclick Office or Word in the list and it should have an
option to repair it.

 

[DeadDancers]

Thanks.

I went into Add/Delete programs and hit change, then the repair button..
managed to hunt down the CD and now it's spent about half an hour 'Waiting
for cabinets to be cached to local installation source' and I'm worried it's
going to croak on me..

I'll let you know if it works out. Thanks for the advice.

-V

 

[DeadDancers]

Unfortunately, the repair couldn't work, due to some foolish design.

I looked around and it appears that the ZF561407.cab (needed as part of the
repair process) file is NOT on the software cd.. and since it wasnt on my
computer or any other that I have, I turned to the net.

The only source I found for it (harrythompson.com) contained 'the file' that
my Norton said was full of very nasty things.

So, I won't be installing THAT.

Thanks for your advice, dude, but at the moment it looks like I'm outta
luck. It wants a file I can't give it.

-V