Unable to obtain Word document

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fireball

My operating system is Windows 95. Word version is Word
2000. Word always worked fine. Recently, I am unable to
open any Word document. The following message appears
when I run ScanDisk (assuming this is the cause of the
problem). The choices given are: delete the file, ignore
the error or have it put into a new folder. I picked the
last option but it appears specific action is required to
do this:

C:\WINDOWS\APPLIC~1\MACROM~1\FLASHP~1
\MACROM~1.COM\SUPPORT\FLASHP~1 folder
cannot be opened in MS-DOS mode because its MS-DOS name,
including the names of any folder sit is in, is longer
than 66 characters.

Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Aldo
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

See "OFF: Cannot Open Office Documents or Cannot Edit Inserted Objects After
You Install Office XP Service Pack 2 or Office 2000 Service Pack 3" at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=328613 for one possible answer.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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Eero Loone

If Suzanne's suggestion will not help, then you might try Windows 95
newsgroups. I seem to remember Windows 95 had sn error message of your type
and sometimes it helped to paste the offending folder to a new location with
short path (like <C:\\Macromedia>). They would know better,

Eero Loone
 
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Tsu Dho Nimh

My operating system is Windows 95. Word version is Word
2000. Word always worked fine. Recently, I am unable to
open any Word document. The following message appears
when I run ScanDisk (assuming this is the cause of the
problem). The choices given are: delete the file, ignore
the error or have it put into a new folder. I picked the
last option but it appears specific action is required to
do this:

C:\WINDOWS\APPLIC~1\MACROM~1\FLASHP~1
\MACROM~1.COM\SUPPORT\FLASHP~1 folder
cannot be opened in MS-DOS mode because its MS-DOS name,
including the names of any folder sit is in, is longer
than 66 characters.
Click to expand...

This may mean your paths are too long. Try moving the thing up
to a higher level foldre.

Tsu Dho Nimh
 
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