Word doesn't save file loaded from an OE attachment

[P Vault]

Check this --

You get a doc file as an attachment and double click it in OE to load it
into word.
You make two hours worth of changes, saving it often.
You finish, save once again, and quit Word.
Then you are astonished that the file, which saved fine from all
appearances, isn't on your hard drive.
This is apparently because you loaded it directly from Outlook Express as an
attachment.
Every save, which looked and acted like a real save, wasn't, apparently.
Is this OE's fault? Or is it Word's fault?
Surely one of them should say, "Excuse me, but you're not really saving this
work you're doing. It's going into the ether. Would you like to actually
save a file to your hard drive?"

But that's not what happens.

Anyone know if the file goes anywhere? Where are all those Word and OE MVPs
when you need them?

As Vincent Price said in The Fly, "Help me! Help me!"

 

[Martha]

You get a doc file as an attachment and double click it in OE to load it
into word.
You make two hours worth of changes, saving it often.
You finish, save once again, and quit Word.
Then you are astonished that the file, which saved fine from all
appearances, isn't on your hard drive.

Well, of course it isn't, you didn't put it there. Your changes were
saved exactly where you told Word to save them, namely in the
attachment itself. Reopen the email and load the attachment: your
changes should be right there (assuming you didn't click No when
Outlook Express asked if you want to save changes).

If you want to save the attachment as a separate file (always a good
idea), you need to tell Word where to put it and what name to give it.
To do this, your first save (in fact, your first action, before you do
any editing) needs to be a Save As. This will bring up the File Save
dialog which lets you choose a location and a file name. Once you've
saved the file in this manner, it's disassociated from the email,
becoming just like every other Word document on your computer. But
until and unless you do a Save As, the document is still an
attachment, so you won't find it on your hard drive unless you know
which temporary folder to look in (and what temporary filename to look
for).

 

[P Vault]

hi martha--

truble is that simply doesn't work. it's the first place i looked (and will
look again, if you insist). i went to OE, doubled clicked on the same
attachment in the same incoming email, and got the same file that had been
on there to begin with.

the only catch might be that I believe i changed the filename slightly, to
iterate it, and then saved (this was working over a 2 hr period). So it
might have been saved back as the new filename which isn't, of course, the
named attachment in the incoming email.

i am VERY open to other suggestions because the work is effectively
irreplaceable.

pv

 

[P Vault]

But

until and unless you do a Save As, the document is still an
attachment, so you won't find it on your hard drive unless you know
which temporary folder to look in (and what temporary filename to look
for).

yeah, thanks. if it is saved, and it appears to be saved, judging from disk
activity light, the problem is finding out where. obviously OE is saving it
to someplace under another name. it is not attached to the email (see my
previous note). i have also tied this since:

send yourself and email with an attachment.
open the attachment (DOC file) by double clicking on it in OE.
edit the thing.
save the thing.
close all.
restart OE
open the file with th eattachment,
it will be the one you orig sent to yourelf, not the edited one.

where is the edited one?

oe and word should NOT act as if they are saving when nothing is saved.
if it were on teh disk ANYWHERE that would be fine with me, butI have
searched high and low, by filename, time, all files, for words in the file,
etc. it isn't there.

 

[P Vault]

For anyone following this, the fact is that it was saved in one of the tmp
files under

C:\Documents and Settings\MYNAME\Application Data\Office\Recent\XXXXXXX

where the XXX is one of the directories of saved recent stuff (in my case
there were 12 directories, each with a hundred or more files in it, and I
had to look at each one with Explorer in the Details view, search for the
Filename, which was intact.

The filename was NOT found by a search of the HD (apparently the search
doesn't go into these folders even though I told it to search ALL FILES AND
FOLDERS).

Anyway, on my manual search of the seventh directory thus I found my file,
sitting there as pretty as you please.

Thanks to them as tried to help.