File permission error when saving to jump drives

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driven

I have tried four different brands of jump drives. They work fine for a few
months, then suddenly I get the message that Word cannot save to the drive
due to a file permission error. The drive is not full -- by a long stretch.
Other items can still be saved to the drive, such as pictures. Why does this
happen after a few months, and can it be fixed? Does it matter that I use 3
different computers at work and home?
 
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Graham Mayor

It is bad practice to save to removable media always save to the hard drive
and copy to and from the removable media.

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driven

Thanks Graham.
I prefer not to save private info to the hard drive, but OK, I understand
the point. So to 'copy' do you mean drag rather than use 'save as'? Anything
I can do at this point about my 4 jump drives that no longer will save Word
documents?
 

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