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Old 03-31-2015, 07:29 PM
mssodium1219 mssodium1219 is offline Cannot find my word document - saved to usb Mac OS X Cannot find my word document - saved to usb Office 2008 for Mac
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I worked on a word document for a couple of times and I saved it on a usb. I could open it but today, I couldn't find the document but there was a fseventsd-uuid file so I opened it using word and it said AB8C7920-7398-4ABA-90AE-B2565A02F51E on the word document



The word document is really important to me
Anyone know how to solve this problem?

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Old 03-31-2015, 08:23 PM
Charles Kenyon Charles Kenyon is offline Cannot find my word document - saved to usb Windows 7 64bit Cannot find my word document - saved to usb Office 2010 32bit
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A time machine would be very helpful. Sorry.
Word does not play well with flashdrives or other removable media. Never has. Using Word with a flashdrive is currently the number one way of corrupting a document.

For future reference, do not use Word directly with anything on a flashdrive. That means do not open a document on a flashdrive, do not print a document on a flashdrive, do not save a document to a flashdrive from within Word.

With the document closed, use the Mac Finder to copy to/from the flashdrive and your hard drive.
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Old 03-31-2015, 11:01 PM
eNGiNe eNGiNe is offline Cannot find my word document - saved to usb Windows 7 32bit Cannot find my word document - saved to usb Office 2010 64bit
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Just out of curiosity, why does Word have problems with flash drives? according to the wikipedia article, these have been around since the turn of the century; and used by Windows from Vista onwards to add system memory. OK, so we know flash drives can die between one write and the next … but that's surely not application-specific?
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My understanding is that it has to do with Word's temporary files. I do not know the reason, just the result.
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