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Microsoft Word file names changing to .~WRD[4 Digits] and then deleting themselves
I have spent many hours with Msoft Tech Support about this problem.
We pursued:
1) changing the location of docs folder
2) reinstalling Word
3) reinstalling Office
4) my purchasing a whole other Office package
5) changing the file name
6) disconnecting external drives
7) copying and pasting the content into a new document
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9) recreating the document from scratch
10) reformatting the drive and installing a new OS
The problem recurred regardless of all this. Tis still repeatedly happening while attempting to save over an open document after adding a certain amount of text into the document.
I have been working around the problem by navigating back to the doc folder, typing in the original file name and replacing the old document.
Most frustrating was losing transcripts from a 24 hour long (3-8 hr day) seminar. The only way to get a partial recovery of the data was to purchase a data recovery software which only recovered about 50% of the document.
- What is the path the the folder where you are saving the files? Is it a folder on the C: Drive or another drive installed IN your computer. Is the folder being synchronized with any external destination (drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc.)
Ive just finished my PhD part time.For the whole 9 years of my PHD I've been using iMacs and external hard drives (Mac formatted). I always saved any PhD documents to all 3 of my external hard drives AND the iMac. Until my latest recent OS upgrade, I have only had this problem occurring very occasionally. Now it's happening every time Im working on a word document all day, which is 3-4 days per week. As someone said above, Im now regularly looking at the name of the file, and if it changes to a temporary file, then I save with the correct name in one of my spots. Unfortunately I cannot always save on the iMac as we regularly loose power (I'm regional). So instead Im saving to one of my hard drives so if I loose power I can flip to using my laptop. It's **bleep** annoying problem.
Path is a fast 12 tb external USB 3 drive that works fine for every other application including real time writing of multitrack audio and video in Final Cut, Protools, Media Composer, etc....
Music_Prof It doesn't matter how fast the interface is. NEVER work on a Word document when it is located on any form of external\removable device and NEVER save a Word document directly to such a device!
