"Save" preferences getting lost

[Mark Pavlick]

List members:

I work on long documents and want to save my work frequently.
Every time I set the "Save" preference to a brief interval like
five or ten minutes, the preferences seemingly resets itself to a
default of thirty minutes.
I'm using Word 2008 for the Mac on an Intel running 10.6.2.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

- Mark Pavlick

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Mark:

That indicates that your user ID does not have permission to write to the
preference file that Word is using, or that something is replacing the
preference file.

With the help of your System Administrator, investigate your access to
/User/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008 (the whole folder!)

If you can't write to it, or something is replacing the content at login,
your preferences won't be saved.

Cheers

List members:

I work on long documents and want to save my work frequently.
Every time I set the "Save" preference to a brief interval like
five or ten minutes, the preferences seemingly resets itself to a
default of thirty minutes.
I'm using Word 2008 for the Mac on an Intel running 10.6.2.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

- Mark Pavlick

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[Mark Pavlick]

McMcGhie,

Many thanks, will do.

- Mark Pavlick