Migrating attachments

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candide

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: pop

For no apparent reason, about two dozen documents (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) created in the last six months have disappeared from the folders I saved them to. Using Finder, I was able to locate them under Documents>Microsoft User Data>Saved Attachments, drag them to the Desktop, and then drag them back to their original folders where they belonged. In some cases, I know that I did forward them as e-mail attachments. In other cases, I'm fairly sure I never did. Either way, why did they disappear from their original files?

Why did this happen? Is there a setting I checked (and shouldn't have) on a window I can't find?
 
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William Smith [MVP]

For no apparent reason, about two dozen documents (Word, PowerPoint,
Excel) created in the last six months have disappeared from the
folders I saved them to. Using Finder, I was able to locate them
under Documents>Microsoft User Data>Saved Attachments, drag them to
the Desktop, and then drag them back to their original folders where
they belonged. In some cases, I know that I did forward them as
e-mail attachments. In other cases, I'm fairly sure I never did.
Either way, why did they disappear from their original files?

Why did this happen? Is there a setting I checked (and shouldn't
have) on a window I can't find?
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Unfortunately, this isn't an Entourage problem. Entourage doesn't have
anything to do with your files/folders disappearing or moving. You've
simply found its cache of attachments that it saves when you open them
from within Entourage without first detaching them from the message.

You'll need to look for a different reason why your files are missing.
Check antivirus software, which can quarantine files it thinks are
infected, and file utilities such as Hazel, which can move files based
on rules.

Hope this helps!

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bill

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