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Saving Documents to network attached system
Correction: MS Word routinely corrupts files not only saved to my NAS, but to my laptop's local drive. This pretty much proves that it's not a problem with EITHER device, but in MS-Word.
I suspect that it's the "MS Word Previewer" that causes it. If I leave a Windows File Explorer pointing to my file, the Previewer shows the preview to the right. This means the file is open, and when I close up my laptop, I believe that the file is still open. I believe hibernation etc has never been handled correctly by Windows, and when I reopen my laptop, the file is now not openable by MS Word.
Really, I need a solution to this problem before I can continue using Word. It's 40 years old and corrupts files?
Steps to re-create problem:
1. Write out significant size file (~ 270K in my case). Quit Word. Leave File Explorer pointing to that file, so that a Preview of it is visible to right.
2. Close laptop.
3. Go to bed, sleep, wake up in morning.
4. Open laptop.
5. Look at file explorer: Preview Window now says "Can't preview because of error in Word Preview Processor".
6. Double-click on file in File Explorer. MS-Word complains that file is corrupt.
I cannot have my precious daily Journal corrupted every day by awful software.
I'm meanwhile going back to LibreOffice applications, which do not have these bugs.