A ghost file in document recovery that won't go away!

[P.Nilens]

Whenever I open WORD(2002) it shows in the available files of the document
recovery panel a file named "Grondverzakking.doc [recovered]" ...
it then leaves me the options to eather save OR open OR delete
Whatever I chose it tells me that Word can not Open, nor delete the file
because
it can not "read from the source file". (This is normal since that file does
not exist any more)
If I ignore it, it pesters me when closing the curent file to delete OR save
the so called "recovered file" . Whatever i do leads to the same result and
on top of it WORD proposes to open in safe mode the next time i launch it.

THIS IS EXTREMELY ENOYING since this happens over and over

Can I NOT FLUSH THE DOCUMENTRECOVERY buffer or something of the sort?

 

[Beth Melton]

It sounds like you have a document 'stuck' in AutoRecovery. To correct
the issue you need to delete the following key in your Registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Word\Resiliency

Don't worry - this key is one that gets created only when there are
documents to recover. The normal process is once you save or delete a
document in the AutoRecovery pane Word will delete they key but
occasionally it needs to be manually 'flushed'.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

 

[P.Nilens]

Thanks a million "Beth Melton"

It did the trick.

All the best for 2006 ;-)

--
P.Nilens

It sounds like you have a document 'stuck' in AutoRecovery. To correct
the issue you need to delete the following key in your Registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Word\Resiliency

Don't worry - this key is one that gets created only when there are
documents to recover. The normal process is once you save or delete a
document in the AutoRecovery pane Word will delete they key but
occasionally it needs to be manually 'flushed'.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

Whenever I open WORD(2002) it shows in the available files of the
document
recovery panel a file named "Grondverzakking.doc [recovered]" ...
it then leaves me the options to eather save OR open OR delete
Whatever I chose it tells me that Word can not Open, nor delete the
file
because
it can not "read from the source file". (This is normal since that
file does
not exist any more)
If I ignore it, it pesters me when closing the curent file to delete
OR save
the so called "recovered file" . Whatever i do leads to the same
result and
on top of it WORD proposes to open in safe mode the next time i
launch it.

THIS IS EXTREMELY ENOYING since this happens over and over

Can I NOT FLUSH THE DOCUMENTRECOVERY buffer or something of the
sort?

 

[Beth Melton]

Glad to hear you have the issue resolved.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/