Hi Bob:
I dimly remember that it cleans up on Startup, but I wouldn't swear to it.
I seem to remember that on shutdown, Word sets a flag to say "I shut down
gracefully". On crash, that flag is not set.
On startup, Word checks for the "Ended Normally" flag. If it's there, it
cleans up the temp files. If it's not, it then opens each temp file,
retrieves the document it applies to (if such a document exists) and
attempts to apply the contents of the temp file to the document and presents
the result as "Recovered".
It's a long time since I tried to get to the bottom of this, but that's what
I remember (so it could be wrong ... )
Cheers
I wasn't completely certain of that on the PC, but thought it might be the
case. I knew it worked that way on the Mac.
One point confuses me, though... When you say:
I was under the impression that the temp file was deleted when you *close*
the doc it pertained to or on Quitting Word appropriately. It seems that if
the temps are there on _startup_ that they would all be presented as
recovered files every time Word is launched. Curious‽
Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
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