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Bob Gardner
I've recently asked my editor if I could remove all traces of a book that is
now at the printer. She told me that she has everything I sent her and to
delete away to my heart's content. I dutifully zapped every folder
identified with the book. Then I looked at "Recent Documents" and found a
couple of hundred duplicates, some saying "Copy of copy of copy of
(filename). There were 23 copies of some individual files. So I nuked the
whole "Recent Documents" folder.
I have already gone into tools to make sure that "Keep a copy" is unchecked,
but there is another checkbox "Background save" which, until today, was
checked. I can't seem to find any description of just what a background save
is, or how it might have contributed to the proliferation of files.
In a perfect world, I would have an original on my desktop, with a copy on
my external hard drive and another on my laptop.
Any ideas as to what causes the multiplicity of files?
Bob Gardner
now at the printer. She told me that she has everything I sent her and to
delete away to my heart's content. I dutifully zapped every folder
identified with the book. Then I looked at "Recent Documents" and found a
couple of hundred duplicates, some saying "Copy of copy of copy of
(filename). There were 23 copies of some individual files. So I nuked the
whole "Recent Documents" folder.
I have already gone into tools to make sure that "Keep a copy" is unchecked,
but there is another checkbox "Background save" which, until today, was
checked. I can't seem to find any description of just what a background save
is, or how it might have contributed to the proliferation of files.
In a perfect world, I would have an original on my desktop, with a copy on
my external hard drive and another on my laptop.
Any ideas as to what causes the multiplicity of files?
Bob Gardner