saving on USB drive in Office 07

P

patti348

When I try to save a document to my USB drive, I go to Save as, but the
different drives are not shown in the window. There is a place on the
left that says "folders" and if I scroll to "computer" the drives
appear. Surely there is a way to fix this so the drives appear without
having to go through "computer."
Thanks.
 
S

sir_C_Rus

if im not mistake, when you click save as you have to back track in the
window to my computer becasue thats where access to all the individual
drives is.
I think you just have to deal with clicking back a few times.
 
G

Gordon

patti348 said:
When I try to save a document to my USB drive, I go to Save as, but the
different drives are not shown in the window. There is a place on the
left that says "folders" and if I scroll to "computer" the drives
appear. Surely there is a way to fix this so the drives appear without
having to go through "computer."
Thanks.
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Navigate to the USB drive in the Save-as dialog, then right-click in the
Places bar and you should see an option to add it as a location.
 
M

Mary Sauer

A good way to have a corrupt document is saving to a removable disk. Save to the
hard drive, copy to the USB drive.
 
G

Gordon

Mary Sauer said:
A good way to have a corrupt document is saving to a removable disk.
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That certainly used to apply to floppy disks, primarily because their
storage space was so small. Surely with the advent of USB flash drives up to
4GB that doesn't apply?
 
G

Gordon

JoAnn Paules said:
Do you really want to risk corrupting a file to find out? It's only a few
more clicks to do it the right way.
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So how is saving on a HDD (attached to the Motherboard by a ribbon)
different from saving onto a USB flash drive (also attached to the
motherboard by a ribbon)....the reason for not saving and working with
documents on a floppy was a) their unreliability in the first place and b)
the fact that Word creates a temporary copy of the document in the folder in
which it exists at the time of manipulation (why on EARTH MS decided to do
this is beyond me - no other WP app does it AFAIK) and if that was on a
floppy and the floppy, as was customary, ran out of space, then the file was
corrupted. I don't see that problem with modern USB 2 drives with HUGE
capacities and very fast transfer rates compared to the old floppy...
 
B

Bob I

Gordon said:
So how is saving on a HDD (attached to the Motherboard by a ribbon)
different from saving onto a USB flash drive (also attached to the
motherboard by a ribbon)....the reason for not saving and working with
documents on a floppy was a) their unreliability in the first place and b)
the fact that Word creates a temporary copy of the document in the folder in
which it exists at the time of manipulation (why on EARTH MS decided to do
this is beyond me - no other WP app does it AFAIK) and if that was on a
floppy and the floppy, as was customary, ran out of space, then the file was
corrupted. I don't see that problem with modern USB 2 drives with HUGE
capacities and very fast transfer rates compared to the old floppy...
Click to expand...

A couple other issues is the file limit in the root of FAT drives and
the MRU listing being maintained on missing removable drives.
 
G

Gordon

JoAnn Paules said:
I'm far from being a guru at this stuff. All I know is that you should
never save directly to removable media.
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I'm not either - but how do you differentiate between a removable HDD and a
USB flash drive? IMHO this thing about not saving to removable media is a
legacy from when 3.5" and 5" FDDs were the ONLY type of removable media
available. I'm open to be proven wrong.... ;-)
 
J

JoAnn Paules

I don't. If it's not hard-wired inside my computer, then I save to the hard
drive first then copy over. Like I said, it's just a few extra clicks. If
someone feels they don't have time for that, then they need to re-evaluate
other aspects of their life. ;-)

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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