Auto Save/Confidential documents

[Luke Chalmers]

Hello,

I have a user who had a question for me and was wondering if anyone can
help. He has a lot of confidential information stored on a memory stick. He
sometimes uses another company's computer to use the memory stick. He puts it
into the computer and uses word, excel etc to work on his documents and then
saves it to memory stick.

Question. Is there any way that the company who owns the computer can open
the documents that he has been working on. I know there is an auto save
option in office which automatically saves the document if something happens.
Would that then automatically save his files on a location on the hard drive?
Could that then be recovered?

Simple question is, if he uses a memory stick is there any possibility that
someone could recover the files that he has been using?

Many thanks,

Luke

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Luke,

There is a possibility, if someone were really, really determined, in part because of the way Word works with temporary files and
the environment variables that are set in Windows play a part of that, but someone would generally need to be looking for the
particular files.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211632/en-us?FR=1

Word doesn't always cleanup after itself if things go wrong, and he may not have access to these other file locations on another
computer or network (would depend on his profile's permissions/rights).

If the documents, or his time working are for that company, well, they may have some rights to them in any case but using his
own computer, not connected to the network, rather than just a carry around memory card, would be 'safer'. If the only approach
would be to use a memory card, then perhaps he should consider using one that has only the files needed for the job at hand without
the confidential data, if those can be separated and still do the job.

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Hello,

I have a user who had a question for me and was wondering if anyone can help. He has a lot of confidential information stored on a
memory stick. He sometimes uses another company's computer to use the memory stick. He puts it into the computer and uses word,
excel etc to work on his documents and then saves it to memory stick.

Question. Is there any way that the company who owns the computer can open the documents that he has been working on. I know there
is an auto save option in office which automatically saves the document if something happens. Would that then automatically save his
files on a location on the hard drive? Could that then be recovered?

Simple question is, if he uses a memory stick is there any possibility that
someone could recover the files that he has been using?

Many thanks,

Luke>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*