Well, you have just liberally illustrated why we advise NEVER saving
directly to a floppy! You have managed to do every single thing wrong
(filling the disk too full, swapping disks in midstream, etc.). Your
document is probably irretrievably corrupt, but now perhaps you understand
why we insist that you should always save to the HD, then copy to the
floppy; conversely, never open a file directly from a floppy: always copy to
the HD first.
If you are in an environment where saving to the HD is not permitted, just
be *extremely* cautious. If you are in the habit of saving frequently, be
aware that a temp file the size of your document may be saved every time you
save the document. These can build up rapidly but will be deleted when you
close the document, so make it a habit to close and reopen the document at
frequent intervals. You might want to keep an Explorer window open, set to
A:/, to keep an eye on how full it's getting. And NEVER remove a floppy in
the middle of Word's manipulation of files. To be on the safe side, use a
clean, empty floppy for every document; it's okay to fill a floppy slam-full
when you're copying files using Explorer, but if you're saving directly to
the floppy, you want to keep it as empty as possible.
RG said:
I had a document open which was saved to disk. I inadvertently changed
the disks over and kept typing. I decided to resave by pressing the floppy
disk icon and a message appeared which I believed was word telling me it was
saving the document as a temp file. It attempted to do this and then failed
as there wasn't enough room on the disk. I put in the previous disk that
the document was saved in and re-saved but I think it re-saved the tmp
document over the top of my original document? The original document is now
corrupted with loads of symbols and these have displaced a lot of the text.
Can anyone help?
