TF wrote:
The reasons were mainly that floppies are (relatively) VERY
slow to read or write and not the most reliable media. When
Word saves (especially in older versions), it needs to
build up the saved file and it does this by creating a
temporary file in the target folder gradually adding or
overwriting bits until it has a complete file. This is then
rewritten and saved as the document file. But the temp file
is locked and active until the document is fully closed and
Word/Windows releases the temp file.

Problems become serious if the file is fairly large or the
floppy is partially filled because the document file and
the temp files may have insufficient room to co-exist on
the floppy. To make matters worse, simultaneous reading and
writing to the floppy is happening at the very slow rate of
the floppy drive.

So all in all, it was hardly surprising that floppies were
a disaster with Word! The best and safest solution for you
is to write your macro to save the file to the main HDD and
then COPY or MOVE it to the mem stick.

Although Word is not so demanding these days, problems
still do occur. I have a colleague who has now twice
corrupted large documents using a memory stick to move
between home and work to continue working on a document.

You now know the risks!


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Quite a lot has been written about avoiding corruption of
documents, and one piece of advice has been "do not save
to A: from Word (though from Explorer is okay). I
habitually save to a memory stick/flash drive in drive E
and I would like to automate this with a VBA macro. Does
anyone have any information on why saving to A: from Word
causes corruption, and more importantly whether or not
saving to E: poses the same danger? Alternatively (and
OT) is it possible to write a VBA (or other) Macro to
invoke this procedure from a hot key while in Windows
Explorer (where I currently do this manually)?

TIA

But over 50% of the things you said are just plain wrong and
belong in the myth category; sorry.