Another m$ attempt to eliminate floppys

[fireftr]

OK, this has always worked, but now it's broken.

XP SP2, Office 2003 both fully patched. Some recent patch, probably a
office patch broke this ages-old mechanism for keeping backup floppys.

Open a word doc from a floppy.
Make a change.
Save it (same floppy, click the save icon)
Remove the original and put in a backup floppy.
Save it again (click the save icon).

Doesn't work any more. Instead you get "file permission error a:\"
or
"check to make sure door is closed and a valid floppy or CD i
inserted".

duh. Word isn't recognizing the disk change anymore.

anyone got a workaround? ( BTW, this is a college student environment
)

Issue is to walk away from the machine with a floppy and a backu
floppy of your work.

I know, save it to the desktop, open it again, save it again to th
backup floppy. That's bogus, to say the least. Save As doesn't see
to work either for the backup. Still barfs with an error message.

If m$ really wants to get rid of floppys, they should find
less-annoying way to go about it

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Working with Word documents directly on diskettes
has been one of those 'not recommended' things for
a few versions

Word creates temporary work files in the folder/drive
where the document was opened. When you changed the
diskette it can't find the files or the directory
structure it was using.

You can save it to the hard drive and then in File=Open
right click the file name and use Send to and select the
diskette drive.

If you are going to work with Word documents on diskette
(not recommended), use the setting in Tools=>Options
to 'Make local copy' when starting.

=======

OK, this has always worked, but now it's broken.

XP SP2, Office 2003 both fully patched. Some recent patch, probably an
office patch broke this ages-old mechanism for keeping backup floppys.

Open a word doc from a floppy.
Make a change.
Save it (same floppy, click the save icon)
Remove the original and put in a backup floppy.
Save it again (click the save icon).

Doesn't work any more. Instead you get "file permission error a:\",
or
"check to make sure door is closed and a valid floppy or CD is
inserted".

duh. Word isn't recognizing the disk change anymore.

anyone got a workaround? ( BTW, this is a college student environment.
)

Issue is to walk away from the machine with a floppy and a backup
floppy of your work.

I know, save it to the desktop, open it again, save it again to the
backup floppy. That's bogus, to say the least. Save As doesn't seem
to work either for the backup. Still barfs with an error message.

If m$ really wants to get rid of floppys, they should find a
less-annoying way to go about it.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Working with Word documents directly on diskettes
has been one of those 'not recommended' things for
a few versions

Word creates temporary work files in the folder/drive
where the document was opened. When you changed the
diskette it can't find the files or the directory
structure it was using.

You can save it to the hard drive and then in File=Open
right click the file name and use Send to and select the
diskette drive.

If you are going to work with Word documents on diskette
(not recommended), use the setting in Tools=>Options
to 'Make local copy' when starting.

=======

OK, this has always worked, but now it's broken.

XP SP2, Office 2003 both fully patched. Some recent patch, probably an
office patch broke this ages-old mechanism for keeping backup floppys.

Open a word doc from a floppy.
Make a change.
Save it (same floppy, click the save icon)
Remove the original and put in a backup floppy.
Save it again (click the save icon).

Doesn't work any more. Instead you get "file permission error a:\",
or
"check to make sure door is closed and a valid floppy or CD is
inserted".

duh. Word isn't recognizing the disk change anymore.

anyone got a workaround? ( BTW, this is a college student environment.
)

Issue is to walk away from the machine with a floppy and a backup
floppy of your work.

I know, save it to the desktop, open it again, save it again to the
backup floppy. That's bogus, to say the least. Save As doesn't seem
to work either for the backup. Still barfs with an error message.

If m$ really wants to get rid of floppys, they should find a
less-annoying way to go about it.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Working with Word documents directly on diskettes
has been one of those 'not recommended' things for
a few versions

Word creates temporary work files in the folder/drive
where the document was opened. When you changed the
diskette it can't find the files or the directory
structure it was using.

You can save it to the hard drive and then in File=Open
right click the file name and use Send to and select the
diskette drive.

If you are going to work with Word documents on diskette
(not recommended), use the setting in Tools=>Options
to 'Make local copy' when starting.

=======

OK, this has always worked, but now it's broken.

XP SP2, Office 2003 both fully patched. Some recent patch, probably an
office patch broke this ages-old mechanism for keeping backup floppys.

Open a word doc from a floppy.
Make a change.
Save it (same floppy, click the save icon)
Remove the original and put in a backup floppy.
Save it again (click the save icon).

Doesn't work any more. Instead you get "file permission error a:\",
or
"check to make sure door is closed and a valid floppy or CD is
inserted".

duh. Word isn't recognizing the disk change anymore.

anyone got a workaround? ( BTW, this is a college student environment.
)

Issue is to walk away from the machine with a floppy and a backup
floppy of your work.

I know, save it to the desktop, open it again, save it again to the
backup floppy. That's bogus, to say the least. Save As doesn't seem
to work either for the backup. Still barfs with an error message.

If m$ really wants to get rid of floppys, they should find a
less-annoying way to go about it.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Working with Word documents directly on diskettes
has been one of those 'not recommended' things for
a few versions

Word creates temporary work files in the folder/drive
where the document was opened. When you changed the
diskette it can't find the files or the directory
structure it was using.

You can save it to the hard drive and then in File=Open
right click the file name and use Send to and select the
diskette drive.

If you are going to work with Word documents on diskette
(not recommended), use the setting in Tools=>Options
to 'Make local copy' when starting.

=======

OK, this has always worked, but now it's broken.

XP SP2, Office 2003 both fully patched. Some recent patch, probably an
office patch broke this ages-old mechanism for keeping backup floppys.

Open a word doc from a floppy.
Make a change.
Save it (same floppy, click the save icon)
Remove the original and put in a backup floppy.
Save it again (click the save icon).

Doesn't work any more. Instead you get "file permission error a:\",
or
"check to make sure door is closed and a valid floppy or CD is
inserted".

duh. Word isn't recognizing the disk change anymore.

anyone got a workaround? ( BTW, this is a college student environment.
)

Issue is to walk away from the machine with a floppy and a backup
floppy of your work.

I know, save it to the desktop, open it again, save it again to the
backup floppy. That's bogus, to say the least. Save As doesn't seem
to work either for the backup. Still barfs with an error message.

If m$ really wants to get rid of floppys, they should find a
less-annoying way to go about it.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Working with Word documents directly on diskettes
has been one of those 'not recommended' things for
a few versions

Word creates temporary work files in the folder/drive
where the document was opened. When you changed the
diskette it can't find the files or the directory
structure it was using.

You can save it to the hard drive and then in File=Open
right click the file name and use Send to and select the
diskette drive.

If you are going to work with Word documents on diskette
(not recommended), use the setting in Tools=>Options
to 'Make local copy' when starting.

=======

OK, this has always worked, but now it's broken.

XP SP2, Office 2003 both fully patched. Some recent patch, probably an
office patch broke this ages-old mechanism for keeping backup floppys.

Open a word doc from a floppy.
Make a change.
Save it (same floppy, click the save icon)
Remove the original and put in a backup floppy.
Save it again (click the save icon).

Doesn't work any more. Instead you get "file permission error a:\",
or
"check to make sure door is closed and a valid floppy or CD is
inserted".

duh. Word isn't recognizing the disk change anymore.

anyone got a workaround? ( BTW, this is a college student environment.
)

Issue is to walk away from the machine with a floppy and a backup
floppy of your work.

I know, save it to the desktop, open it again, save it again to the
backup floppy. That's bogus, to say the least. Save As doesn't seem
to work either for the backup. Still barfs with an error message.

If m$ really wants to get rid of floppys, they should find a
less-annoying way to go about it.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Working with Word documents directly on diskettes
has been one of those 'not recommended' things for
a few versions

Word creates temporary work files in the folder/drive
where the document was opened. When you changed the
diskette it can't find the files or the directory
structure it was using.

You can save it to the hard drive and then in File=Open
right click the file name and use Send to and select the
diskette drive.

If you are going to work with Word documents on diskette
(not recommended), use the setting in Tools=>Options
to 'Make local copy' when starting.

=======

OK, this has always worked, but now it's broken.

XP SP2, Office 2003 both fully patched. Some recent patch, probably an
office patch broke this ages-old mechanism for keeping backup floppys.

Open a word doc from a floppy.
Make a change.
Save it (same floppy, click the save icon)
Remove the original and put in a backup floppy.
Save it again (click the save icon).

Doesn't work any more. Instead you get "file permission error a:\",
or
"check to make sure door is closed and a valid floppy or CD is
inserted".

duh. Word isn't recognizing the disk change anymore.

anyone got a workaround? ( BTW, this is a college student environment.
)

Issue is to walk away from the machine with a floppy and a backup
floppy of your work.

I know, save it to the desktop, open it again, save it again to the
backup floppy. That's bogus, to say the least. Save As doesn't seem
to work either for the backup. Still barfs with an error message.

If m$ really wants to get rid of floppys, they should find a
less-annoying way to go about it.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Working with Word documents directly on diskettes
has been one of those 'not recommended' things for
a few versions

Word creates temporary work files in the folder/drive
where the document was opened. When you changed the
diskette it can't find the files or the directory
structure it was using.

You can save it to the hard drive and then in File=Open
right click the file name and use Send to and select the
diskette drive.

If you are going to work with Word documents on diskette
(not recommended), use the setting in Tools=>Options
to 'Make local copy' when starting.

=======

OK, this has always worked, but now it's broken.

XP SP2, Office 2003 both fully patched. Some recent patch, probably an
office patch broke this ages-old mechanism for keeping backup floppys.

Open a word doc from a floppy.
Make a change.
Save it (same floppy, click the save icon)
Remove the original and put in a backup floppy.
Save it again (click the save icon).

Doesn't work any more. Instead you get "file permission error a:\",
or
"check to make sure door is closed and a valid floppy or CD is
inserted".

duh. Word isn't recognizing the disk change anymore.

anyone got a workaround? ( BTW, this is a college student environment.
)

Issue is to walk away from the machine with a floppy and a backup
floppy of your work.

I know, save it to the desktop, open it again, save it again to the
backup floppy. That's bogus, to say the least. Save As doesn't seem
to work either for the backup. Still barfs with an error message.

If m$ really wants to get rid of floppys, they should find a
less-annoying way to go about it.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Working with Word documents directly on diskettes
has been one of those 'not recommended' things for
a few versions

Word creates temporary work files in the folder/drive
where the document was opened. When you changed the
diskette it can't find the files or the directory
structure it was using.

You can save it to the hard drive and then in File=Open
right click the file name and use Send to and select the
diskette drive.

If you are going to work with Word documents on diskette
(not recommended), use the setting in Tools=>Options
to 'Make local copy' when starting.

=======

OK, this has always worked, but now it's broken.

XP SP2, Office 2003 both fully patched. Some recent patch, probably an
office patch broke this ages-old mechanism for keeping backup floppys.

Open a word doc from a floppy.
Make a change.
Save it (same floppy, click the save icon)
Remove the original and put in a backup floppy.
Save it again (click the save icon).

Doesn't work any more. Instead you get "file permission error a:\",
or
"check to make sure door is closed and a valid floppy or CD is
inserted".

duh. Word isn't recognizing the disk change anymore.

anyone got a workaround? ( BTW, this is a college student environment.
)

Issue is to walk away from the machine with a floppy and a backup
floppy of your work.

I know, save it to the desktop, open it again, save it again to the
backup floppy. That's bogus, to say the least. Save As doesn't seem
to work either for the backup. Still barfs with an error message.

If m$ really wants to get rid of floppys, they should find a
less-annoying way to go about it.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Working with Word documents directly on diskettes
has been one of those 'not recommended' things for
a few versions

Word creates temporary work files in the folder/drive
where the document was opened. When you changed the
diskette it can't find the files or the directory
structure it was using.

You can save it to the hard drive and then in File=Open
right click the file name and use Send to and select the
diskette drive.

If you are going to work with Word documents on diskette
(not recommended), use the setting in Tools=>Options
to 'Make local copy' when starting.

=======

OK, this has always worked, but now it's broken.

XP SP2, Office 2003 both fully patched. Some recent patch, probably an
office patch broke this ages-old mechanism for keeping backup floppys.

Open a word doc from a floppy.
Make a change.
Save it (same floppy, click the save icon)
Remove the original and put in a backup floppy.
Save it again (click the save icon).

Doesn't work any more. Instead you get "file permission error a:\",
or
"check to make sure door is closed and a valid floppy or CD is
inserted".

duh. Word isn't recognizing the disk change anymore.

anyone got a workaround? ( BTW, this is a college student environment.
)

Issue is to walk away from the machine with a floppy and a backup
floppy of your work.

I know, save it to the desktop, open it again, save it again to the
backup floppy. That's bogus, to say the least. Save As doesn't seem
to work either for the backup. Still barfs with an error message.

If m$ really wants to get rid of floppys, they should find a
less-annoying way to go about it.