Re: Spotlight on Word problems

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Hi ej

Elliott is probably on the money. I bet your Word 6 files were put on a CD or some other read-only media and at that point the permissions on those files were changed to "read-only.

Use Finder's GetInfo command and see what the permissions are set to and change them so that you can both read and write to those files.

-Jim

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e.j.whenham@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
I have found that Spotlight -- one of the main features of OS X 10.4 --
indexes my Word 2004 files easily enough, but will not index my archive
of research files created ten years ago with Word 6. This has,
incidentally, thrown up other problems with Word 2004. Although Word
will open these older files, it will not allow them to be altered and
re-saved. So the only solution is to save the file under another name
and throw the original away. The new file is then indexed quite happily
by Spotlight, but the information about its original creation date has,
of course, gone. Then, when I try to empty the old file from the
wastebasket, this is disallowed on the grounds that it is still in use.
The only solution is to switch off and start again. Is this a common
experience?

.

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