Comments for Why do the changes I've made to a document that was emailed to me disappear?

Comment from Robert on 2008-08-05

2008-08-05T21:01:15Z

It would be helpful if you gave suggestions on how to search the temporary files.

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Comment from Donald on 2008-07-02

2008-07-02T09:18:16Z

Just another ******* example of how **** and ill- thought through word and outlook is. I have just lost all my edits of a whole ****** afternoon due to this problem.

**** *** Microsoft.

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Comment from David on 2008-04-02

2008-04-02T17:57:27Z

Yes, I understand it. But where the document is temporarily stored? When I open the file agian it has the (1) attached at end. If I open it third time it has (2) attached. It means the document exists somewhere, but where? I made changes, saved, closed, returned to Outlook, pressed Reply, the message close without asking a thing, and I discovered I have not given an option to save the document at any point. Word recent documents does not list it, Search does not discover any document with similar name on whole drive C:. And Outlook Aplication data folder also does not contain any usable file.

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Comment from Helder on 2007-12-20

2007-12-20T11:00:02Z

Hi Leo,

Thanks for your thorough explanation. I just had a row with our IT guys over this issue. Your email explains in a lot more detail why the changed attachment doesn't get saved, but I was wondering if there is anything that can be done in the meantime. Is there any little programme that can be run to disable the "save" option on excel attachments so that you are forced to use "save as" or can you some how set Outlook up so that it auto saves documents into a designated non-temporary folder. It drives me nuts that everyone passively explains why the problem exists and no one knows of a way to fix it... everyone i know in every company i've worked in has lost large ammounts of data in this way, more than once. It's just so counter-intuitive the way it works now.

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Comment from Michael on 2004-10-26

2004-10-27T02:28:38Z

Thanks Leo, it is all clear to me now. :)

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