Re: Word Not deleting temp files

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From: Graham Mayor (gmayor_at_DELETECAPSmvps.org)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 08:30:57 +0100

The files may also simply be orphans. Clearing them out may help Word
behave - http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm 

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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
> The display of the tilde depends on the font, and in general the ~$
> will replace the first two letters of the filename if it is longer
> than six characters. If these "owner" files are not being deleted, it
> may be a problem with permissions or, if he is on a network, with
> possible server attributes.
>
>
> "Lem" <lemp40@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Ozj8rk9sEHA.636@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> A friend of mine with Office XP says that shortly after updating to
>> SP2 of Win XP Pro, Word has been creating files with ~$ as the first
>> two characters.  As far as I know, Word normally does this while a
>> file is open (e.g., if I'm working on test.doc, Word creates
>> ~$test.doc) but then deletes the temporary file when you close the
>> real file.  His system isn't deleting the temp file.  There are two
>> other pecularities that may be related.  (1) his system drops the
>> first letter of the filename (so the temp file for test.doc is
>> ~$est.doc) and (2) his tilde seems to be at the top of the character
>> space rather than at the middle.
>>
>> Any suggestions?

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