What are "recovered" files? Why does Word 2003 keep creating them?

  • Thread starter Clueless in Seattle
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Clueless in Seattle

The last couple of times I've run Word 2003, it has alerted me that it
has "recovered" some files and has asked me to select the ones I want
it to save.

What strikes me as peculiar about this is that the files that it
supposedly "recovered" already existed in readable and editable form on
my hard drive.

Not sure what to do, I decided to err on the side of caution, and asked
word to "recover" all the files on the list, and I just added a
numeral to the end of the filenames of the recovered files.

So now I've got three versions of each of the files with names like
this:

Filename
Filename2
Fiename3

I'm wondering if someone could explain to me why Word is creating these
additional files, and perhaps offer me some advice on the appropriate
response the next time this happens.

Will in Seattle
a.k.a. "Clueless"
 

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