Yet another Save question (FileLocation and new docs)

[mansky99]

Hi all,
I'm running Word 10.1.8 on Mac OSX 10.2.8 and want to know, in Word
preferences,
under File Locations, if the "Documents" line is left blank, where does Word
"expect"
the "Documents" to be located at? If one leaves this field blank, is null
the default value?
Should I define this field to be usual default value (USERocuments) so
that Word will
have the field value defined.

I ask because "sometimes" when Word crashes, upon working on a new blank
document,
I don't get a "Recovered" document to recover at all. In other cases, if I
was working on a
new document and had several other Word docs open at the same time (docs
previously
saved), upon a crash, Word seems to be able to recover the existing docs OK,
but nothing
comes back for the new doc I was just working on.

This problem with recovering the new doc after a Word crash occurs not
every time, but
frequently enough to be annoying.

Any tips, or links to an MVP article would be greatly appreciated!


Ed

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Ed:

That field provides the initial value for "Current Folder".

If the field is blank, Word defaults it to User/Documents.

As soon as you open a document, Word updates "Current Folder" to the folder
containing the document you opened. Thereafter, Current Folder always has
the path of the most-recently opened document folder.

Change the "Documents" location if you want Word to start up in a particular
location other than your Documents folder.

It has nothing to do with Crash Recovery. The AutoRecover files are saved
in the system Temp directory. Word will hand you the recovered file on
restart if it can. If it doesn't, that's because Word did not have time to
save the file before it crashed, and so there is no AutoRecover for it.

Cheers

Hi all,
I'm running Word 10.1.8 on Mac OSX 10.2.8 and want to know, in Word
preferences,
under File Locations, if the "Documents" line is left blank, where does Word
"expect"
the "Documents" to be located at? If one leaves this field blank, is null
the default value?
Should I define this field to be usual default value (USERocuments) so
that Word will
have the field value defined.

I ask because "sometimes" when Word crashes, upon working on a new blank
document,
I don't get a "Recovered" document to recover at all. In other cases, if I
was working on a
new document and had several other Word docs open at the same time (docs
previously
saved), upon a crash, Word seems to be able to recover the existing docs OK,
but nothing
comes back for the new doc I was just working on.

This problem with recovering the new doc after a Word crash occurs not
every time, but
frequently enough to be annoying.

Any tips, or links to an MVP article would be greatly appreciated!


Ed

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