Re: Rash of corrupted documents
From: Peter Harrington (pharring_at_columbus.rr.com)
Date: 11/24/04
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 12:16:18 -0500
> If the machines are networked, why are you transferring files by e-mail?
Because Windows XP Pro does such a poor job with peer-2-peer networks. At a
university we can't afford the exorbidant costs of Windows Server Software.
In order to have a secure (i.e., non-simple file sharing) every user must
have an account on every computer which is not worth the administrative
overhead.
In addition, e-mail is a good way to maintain version control because the
drafts are stored in the Outlook mailbox folder OLK6 as a backup for each
user when they send a copy. Fortunately, disk space is relatively cheap.
Thanks,
Pete
"Graham Mayor" <gmayor@DELETECAPSmvps.org> wrote in message
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> It is not unknown for Word documents to become corrupted by e-mail.
> Zipping
> the documents before transmission both reduces bandwidth and the
> opportunity
> for corruption.
>
> If the machines are networked, why are you transferring files by e-mail?
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> Peter Harrington wrote:
>> Affirmative. The documents are transferred as outlook e-mail
>> attachments between machines.
>>
>> They do include figures as enhance metafiles, and we are using
>> EndNote 8 for managing the bibliographies.
>>
>> They are not shared across the netowrk.
>>
>> Pete
>>
>> "RWN" <NotLikely@mts.net> wrote in message
>> news:ulXs4dd0EHA.1308@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>> Not an expert, but;
>>> They're not sharing Normal.Dot, are they?
>>> i.e. each local machine should have it's own Normal.Dot.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards;
>>> Rob
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>>> "Peter Harrington" <pharring@columbus.rr.com> wrote in message
>>> news:%23BTZqLc0EHA.2824@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>>> We are using Word 2003 SP1 and Windoze XP Pro SP2. Several members
>>>> of my group have had corrupted documents recently on their own
>>>> computers and installations of Word, so this could be a bug in Word
>>>> although the documents
>>>> are often shared among the several computers.
>>>>
>>>> Fortunately, the Word repair document in the open menu seemed to
>>>> fix the problem. The interesting symptom is the corrupted
>>>> documents increased to approximately 10X the size of the
>>>> uncorrupted documents. It is interesting
>>>> because this problem seems to be new. We don't use master
>>>> documents and we
>>>> have fast saves turned off.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions on how to report this bug will be appreciated.
>>>> There are no
>>>> diagnostics when opening the document, just the statement that the
>>>> document
>>>> 'may' be corrupt. I have a copy of the corrupted document if any
>>>> would like
>>>> to take a look at it.
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>
>>>> Pete
>
>
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