Saving over old Word files not working

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David

After updating to Office 2004 when I opened an old Word file, made a
few changes and attempted to save, it came up with the message I was
used to "do you wnat to replace the file with the new format" or
something like that. I clicked replace and it wouldn't do it. I had to
move the file to the trash to save the file in the same folder first.
 
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John McGhie

David:

What Beth is saying is that your User ID needs both Rename and Remove
permissions for the document folder.

When Word does a "Save", it actually does a "Write", "Rename", "Rename",
"Remove".

First it writes the new version to a temporary file. Then it renames the
original, then it renames the new, then it removes the backup and renames
the old.

Believe it or not, it's quicker and safer to do it that way: if any of the
operations fail, you get left with a complete useable file on the disk. But
it means that the logged-in user must have both write, rename, and remove
permissions for the folder.

Check with your system administrator. (I hate saying that: because usually
when I read it, it turns out that I *am* the system administrator, and the
reason I am reading it is because I don't know how to solve the problem :))

Hope this helps

Hi David,

I asked whether this was a bug and the answer is no. Here's what came back:


Hope this helps track it down.

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