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DOCUMENT NAME OR PATH INVALID
Hi, yesterday I saved a 55-page Word Document to my
PC100 Iomega Zip Disk. I made changes to the document later, but was unable to save the changes. It said the file was inaccessible, and recommended I see the File Preferences or Formatting-- something similar to that. So, I closed my document and tried to access it again, but a box popped up that said "Document name or path not valid. Check to make sure the path is correct or try and search for your document by clicking on the File dialog box, and selectiong Options." But after I clicked Okay on the box, my Word document disappeared from my zip disk! I couldn't find it anywhere. I saved it to my zip, so it couldn't have been deleted without my knowing, right? Also, it wasn't hidden, becuase I checked. What is going on, and can someone help me? Thanks, tam |
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DOCUMENT NAME OR PATH INVALID
Commiserations. You've joined the long list of people who have discovered
the hard way why you should never save a Word document directly to removable media. For future reference, always save to your hard disk; then use Explorer to copy to the removable medium. The problem is that when Word is working on a document it creates a copy and does the work on that, reading and writing the copy continually. When you save, the original is updated and the copy is deleted. This intensive disk access -- apart from being much slower than working on a hard disk -- very often corrupts the document. In the meantime: copy the contents of the ZIP disk to your hard drive. Check for a Word backup. If there is a corrupt version of your original file, try opening it using the 'Recover text from any file' option on the File Open dialog. Failing that, you're probably out of luck. "Tam Nguyen" wrote in message ... Hi, yesterday I saved a 55-page Word Document to my PC100 Iomega Zip Disk. I made changes to the document later, but was unable to save the changes. It said the file was inaccessible, and recommended I see the File Preferences or Formatting-- something similar to that. So, I closed my document and tried to access it again, but a box popped up that said "Document name or path not valid. Check to make sure the path is correct or try and search for your document by clicking on the File dialog box, and selectiong Options." But after I clicked Okay on the box, my Word document disappeared from my zip disk! I couldn't find it anywhere. I saved it to my zip, so it couldn't have been deleted without my knowing, right? Also, it wasn't hidden, becuase I checked. What is going on, and can someone help me? Thanks, tam |
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DOCUMENT NAME OR PATH INVALID
Go into the tools menu | options | save tab. Examine the checkbox labeled
"make local copy of files stored on network or removable drives" and uncheck it if it is checked. This option, while designed to speed up such file editing, seemed to cause us a lot of lost or corrupted files and we finally disabled it for all our users. hth, Chip "Tam Nguyen" wrote in message ... Hi, yesterday I saved a 55-page Word Document to my PC100 Iomega Zip Disk. I made changes to the document later, but was unable to save the changes. It said the file was inaccessible, and recommended I see the File Preferences or Formatting-- something similar to that. So, I closed my document and tried to access it again, but a box popped up that said "Document name or path not valid. Check to make sure the path is correct or try and search for your document by clicking on the File dialog box, and selectiong Options." But after I clicked Okay on the box, my Word document disappeared from my zip disk! I couldn't find it anywhere. I saved it to my zip, so it couldn't have been deleted without my knowing, right? Also, it wasn't hidden, becuase I checked. What is going on, and can someone help me? Thanks, tam |
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