Word files disappeared from USB drive

[Guest]

Hi

I had a near disaster with some Word files (Word 2002). My daughter did a
school assignment on our laptop running XP. She brought her USB drive
containing said assignment to me to proof read on our desktop running Vista
Ultimate (but still with Word 2002). I could open the file OK, but when I
made a simple change and saved, I got an error message about permissions and
network access (I was too stressed about potentially losing three weeks of
work to jot down the exact details!). To cut a long story short, not only
could I not save changes, but the original file disappeared completely from
the USB drive! Thank goodness she had also saved to the laptop's hard drive,
so nothing was lost, but it could so nearly have been a disaster. Any
suggestions how to fix this so it doesn't happen again?

 

[Rock]

Hi

I had a near disaster with some Word files (Word 2002). My daughter did a
school assignment on our laptop running XP. She brought her USB drive
containing said assignment to me to proof read on our desktop running
Vista
Ultimate (but still with Word 2002). I could open the file OK, but when I
made a simple change and saved, I got an error message about permissions
and
network access (I was too stressed about potentially losing three weeks of
work to jot down the exact details!). To cut a long story short, not only
could I not save changes, but the original file disappeared completely
from
the USB drive! Thank goodness she had also saved to the laptop's hard
drive,
so nothing was lost, but it could so nearly have been a disaster. Any
suggestions how to fix this so it doesn't happen again?

Before editing a file copy it to the hard drive, edit it there, save the
changes then copy it back.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply. While I would certainly be doing this in future, it
seems like a fairly fundamental error, with so many people using USB drives
to transport files between work and home etc. Surely it's not impossible to
fix? I have read of at least one other person with the same issue.

 

[Frank]

Hi

I had a near disaster with some Word files (Word 2002). My daughter did a
school assignment on our laptop running XP. She brought her USB drive
containing said assignment to me to proof read on our desktop running Vista
Ultimate (but still with Word 2002). I could open the file OK, but when I
made a simple change and saved, I got an error message about permissions and
network access (I was too stressed about potentially losing three weeks of
work to jot down the exact details!). To cut a long story short, not only
could I not save changes, but the original file disappeared completely from
the USB drive! Thank goodness she had also saved to the laptop's hard drive,
so nothing was lost, but it could so nearly have been a disaster. Any
suggestions how to fix this so it doesn't happen again?

O.T. Are you Tammy T.?
Frank

 

[Doris Day - MFB]

Before editing a file copy it to the hard drive, edit it there, save the
changes then copy it back.

Why? Because one can't trust writing to a flash drive with Fista? There's no
excuse for an operating system (I use the term lightly) to lose data like
that.

Love and Kisses,
Doris

 

[Doris Day - MFB]

Thanks for the reply. While I would certainly be doing this in future, it
seems like a fairly fundamental error, with so many people using USB
drives to transport files between work and home etc. Surely it's not
impossible to fix? I have read of at least one other person with the same
issue.

Indeed it is a "fundamental error" and is inexcusable, although the Windows
Fan Boys around here will try to skirt around the issue in defense of their
beloved Fista.

Love and Kisses,
Doris

 

[Rock]

Why? Because one can't trust writing to a flash drive with Fista? There's
no
excuse for an operating system (I use the term lightly) to lose data like
that.

You are such an idiot. In the first place it's unknown why it happened
here. It could be any one of a number of reasons. There is nothing that
proves it is a system problem.

It has always been good practice not to edit files on temporary media, but
to copy the file to the hard drive, edit, and copy back.

Get lost with your trolling.

 

[Doris Day - MFB]

You are such an idiot. In the first place it's unknown why it happened
here. It could be any one of a number of reasons. There is nothing that
proves it is a system problem.

It has always been good practice not to edit files on temporary media, but
to copy the file to the hard drive, edit, and copy back.

Guess that's part of being productive with Windoze. My external USB hard
drives running attached to my Linux boxes are not "temporary media".
They're fulling fuctional and used all the time without such silly errors.
So when you talk about "good practice", remember that it might apply to a
system like Windoze which is so undependable. With Linux, it's not an
issue. But then that's what separates a real operating system from a toy
operating system.

Get lost with your trolling.

So telling the truth is trolling? So sad, that you Wintards choose to have
such closed minds. Well, do have fun writing to an internal everytime
before copying over to an external. Makes you work twice as hard to get
anything done. But that's the Windoze-way I guess and you seem to like it.

Love and Kisses,
Doris

 

[Lang Murphy]

So telling the truth is trolling? So sad, that you Wintards choose to have

<snip>

Oh yeah... you're not a self-absorbed malcontent troll who only posts in
this NG to look down your nose at Windows users. No, not you.

Lang

 

[Frank]

Rock wrote:



Guess that's part of being productive with Windoze. My external USB hard
drives running attached to my Linux boxes are not "temporary media".
They're fulling fuctional and used all the time without such silly errors.
So when you talk about "good practice", remember that it might apply to a
system like Windoze which is so undependable. With Linux, it's not an
issue. But then that's what separates a real operating system from a toy
operating system.



So telling the truth is trolling? So sad, that you Wintards choose to have
such closed minds. Well, do have fun writing to an internal everytime
before copying over to an external. Makes you work twice as hard to get
anything done. But that's the Windoze-way I guess and you seem to like it.

Love and Kisses,
Doris

Oh Doris, you're so confused lately? Pray tell what have you been ingesting?
I hate to tell you this in public but there is no such thing as Windoze.
Unless of course you're referring to those green pills you got from
that...other person.
You remember everybody warned you about taking them...you do remember right?
Frank