>>>> QUOTING Lawrence Kellie to Dik Coates <<<<
 > Gotta be careful... if you have done an interim save and later in the
 > document, the system crashes (GPF or otherwise) and the file is '
 > recovered'.  Word prompts if you want to save the recovered file and
 > you say no... it erases the saved file with the recovered name...
 LK> Lemme see if I have this correct.  I am working on 
 LK> G:\DOCUMENTS\TEST.DOC. I have saved the document once 
 LK> during work.  The Autosave feature has saved the document 
 LK> once since my manual save.  At this point, I get a GPF,
 LK> Word shuts down.  I reopen Word (which should occur after 
OK to this point...
 LK> closing Windows and re-loading Windows).  At the top of the
Haven't started from a fresh Windows environment... but from the
program manager level..
 LK> screen, it shows Recovered: G:\DOCUMENTS\TEST.DOC, or some 
 LK> such wording.  This recovered TEST.DOC was from the ~*.tmp 
 LK> file that Word creates.
 LK> Now, if I close that recovered file and do NOT save it, are 
 LK> you saying that my file G:\DOCUMENTS\TEST.DOC will be 
 LK> erased/deleted from the the harddrive?
Yup...
 LK> The reason I ask is because that has not been my 
 LK> experience.  I have never lost the saved document (i.e., 
 LK> G:\DOCUMENTS\TEST.DOC) because of a system or otherwise 
 LK> crash (except for maybe a harddrive failure).
Might be that the difference is in completely re-starting windows...
and not continuing from the program manager... Have had this happen
a couple of times... (fingers workin' faster than the noodle, and
it's just when you press No to save recovered file that you realize
the error! )
Regards Dik
... Ethical question: Drowning lawyer - drive on or watch?
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