rescue.asd

[DPM]

Twice now Word 2007 failed to write to a networked drive, and offered to
save the file as "rescue.asd". But when I do so and close/reopen Word and
ask it to open rescue.asd, it declares that .asd is not a valid extension.
Renaming it to .docx and opening results in a corrupt file message.

What good are .asd files if Word won't recover them?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The .asd files are AutoRecovery backup files, which Word should open by
default the next time you start the program. But only Word can open them;
you can't.

 

[DPM]

Suzanne,

I think Word tried and failed. I don't clearly remember what happened,
since I didn't know what SHOULD happen.

Is there a way to get Word to try again?

Thanks,
Dean

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't think so. Every now and then AutoRecovery just doesn't function as
it should, unfortunately.

 

[DPM]

Well, out of two failures Word2007 is batting 0. Are there any known
problems in this area?

Thanks,
Dean