Re: Save, Save As and AutoSave disabled (New or existing documents

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I had the exact same problem.
Using: Microsoft Word 2002 (10.6818.6817) SP3

After the "Saving the AutoRecovery file for <document> has been postponed.",
saving the file (using File | Save or File | Save As...) doesn't work. When
closing the program, a dialog box appears with the question if it should save
the file (Yes No Cancel).
- Clicking on "Yes": Dialog box closes, nothing happens - Word didn't close,
file WASN'T SAVED.
- Clicking on "No": Word closes and file doesn't save.

Ofcourse, no corresponding AutoRecovery files are found in the Temp dir.
Like the topic starter says: basically, all the new changes are lost.



"Beth Melton" wrote:

What version of Word are you using? The term "AutoSave" was replaced
in Word 97 with "AutoRecovery". Perhaps that's was the text used in
the message?

In any event, AutoRecovery is "emergency use only" save and it's only
used if the document isn't closed properly in the event of a
crash/hang/etc. If you had been saving your file ever few minutes then
it should still be there.

Now, it could be there was a problem during the Save process. Check
the folder for the document and see if there is a temp file named
something like ~wrd*.tmp. If you find one then try opening it in Word
and see if it's your document.

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"Lugubrious" <Lugubrious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3BACD50C-027F-4BCC-BEFF-E8E6B6F870D5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Something I've never encountered: In the middle of writing, I got a
message
indicating that "AutoSave is postponed for Document XXX." I thought
this was
fine since I was Cntl-S saving every few minutes. After about 6
hours of the
"postponed" message popping up, I tried to Save As. No "Save As"
box came
up. When I tried to close the document (thinking that it had been
saved all
along by use of Cntl-S), Word asked if I wanted to Save the
document. I
selected "Yes," and then tried to close the document, but was asked
again if
I wanted to save. I finally closed it without saving, and the temp
file on
the document was last modified (saved) just before I started getting
the
AutoSave message. Essentially, the document is lost. I've since
tried
opening a blank document and after typing a few words, I try to
save.
Nothing. Autosave is selected in the Options tab, but all save
functionality
is lost. Virus scans and Ad-Aware scans are negative.

Any ideas?

Thanks all.



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