Re: The document name or path is not valid

Hi freely001

You are probably suffering from the problems associated with saving a Word
document to any removable media. When Word opens a document, it also creates
a whole lot of temporary files in the same folder as the document. It uses
these files when you're working on the document. When you save the document,
it creates a few more. With such a large file, the space required for those
documents would be large.

Two things might have happened:
1. Word might have run out of space.
or
2. If you don't properly shut down a memory stick using the control on the
Windows taskbar, then Windows does not close all the files.

So the lessons are:
1. When you want to take a document home to work on it, save it to your hard
disk, then use Windows Explorer to copy it to the memory stick. At home, use
Windows Explorer to copy it from the memory stick to the hard drive of your
computer, and work on it there. Never use Word to open a document from a
memory stick, and don't use Word to save it to the memory stick.

2. Before you pull a memory stick out of its USB slot, make sure you shut
down the device. There will be a little green icon near the clock.
Right-click it to shut down the memory stick.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word


"freely001" <freely001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2F8215BE-9438-491B-ADA2-768B356C182B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have been putting together a large presentation (last version was 2,658
> kB). I saved it to a memory stick and took it home to work on. I added to
> it
> but did not copy the additional changes over the original. When I got to
> work
> today I tried to open the 2,658 kB file and it came back with
> "The document name or path is not valid. Try these suggestions.
> *check the file permissions for the document or drive.
> *Use the File Open dialog box to locate the document." and it proceeds to
> give me the path where it is located. I have tried getting others to open
> the
> file, checked to see if the file would open on my notebook that I used to
> work on it last night and even rebooted my computer and nothing has
> worked.
> What has happened?


.

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