Saving Word Document goes to Temporary Internet Files

[Eric Floyd]

When I open a Word document from an email attachment and the make a change to
the document and click Save it defaults to c:\Documents and
Settings\username\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLK5C

When I try to browse to this folder it does not exhist. I have set the
option to view hidden folders but as far as I can get is the Tempory Internet
Files folder, there are no sub folders under that.

I do not care if I cannot access this folder but I need to be able to make
sure that my users do not save to it, or if they do how do we access the
folder? Where is it?

 

[Gary Smith]

The folder is exactly where the system clains it is, but you can't easily
get there via Windows Explorer. The TIF folder is a system folder, and
when you attempt to browse, a special "cache view" is presented that looks
nothing like the underlying folder and file structure.

If you reset the option to hide protected operating system files, you may
be able to navigate to it using the Folders Panel of Windows Explorer. If
you delete the folder, Outlook will just recreate it the next time it
wants to save an attachment temporarily. I don't know of any way to
prevent users from saving a changed file back into that folder. You may
have to be satisfied with warning them that doing so is a bad idea and may
result in loss of their changes.

When I open a Word document from an email attachment and the make a change to
the document and click Save it defaults to c:\Documents and
Settings\username\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLK5C

 

[Opinicus]

When I open a Word document from an email attachment and
the make a change to
the document and click Save it defaults to c:\Documents
and

In three words: Don't do that.

That's a great way to lose your file if the internet file
cache should get flushed. In a thread in another
microsoft.public newsgroup there's a frantic message from
some student who spent a week editing a document that he
repeatedly opened and saved as an email attachment. One
morning he discovered that it was gone. The paper of course
was due the next day.

Documents that are to be edited should be placed first in an
appropriate place in the "Documents and Settings" folder.
Saving and working with them anywhere else (like a floppy
disk, another popular black hole for Office documents) is an
invitation to disaster.

In my setup I have an "Incoming" folder under "My
documents". All incoming email attachments get saved there.
When I want to work with one of them, I *copy* the file to
"My documents" and give it a new but similar name.