saving on thumbdrives

[Charkol]

How can i work on a doc that is saved on a thumbdrive, but have it backed up on my laptop?
Because i work on these documents both at home and at other computers, and i find it's easier to just open the one on the thumbdrive then drag and drop from there after i make changes.

As it is now, if I make changes to the doc on the thumbdrive, it won't save because there is another doc on my computer with the same name (in my MyDocuments folder).

Is this right protected? or something i can change in the new document settings?

 

[Gavona]

Personally I would use SyncToy to sychronise.
Surely you get a prompt about overwriting with the drag and drop?

Gavin

 

[Charkol]

Yes, i get the prompt when i try to drag and drop from thumbdrive to harddisk.

The only way i can sync these together is to copy the whole document and past it on top of the one in my harddisk.

I don't want to use a sync program because i don't want it to automatically sync everything the moment i insert my removable drive.

What i'm looking for is a way to modify the file permission, and apply the change to all the 'new documents' i create in the future.

As it is now, i've found since playing with it since i posted first, is that even after i have closed the documents (without saving), and all word pages are closed, and even with no programs running on my desktop, the file is un openable. I now get a new prompt saying the document is in use by another program. But this seems like a different issue than my original issue. I'm stuck in a hummph.

 

[Gavona]

SyncToy is run only at your command and you can choose to preview what will be synchronised before running for real. Can specify folders and file name pattern to include and the type of synchronisation.

Yep, sounds like you now have a different problem.

Gavin

 

[macropod]

Hi Charkol,

Working directly on removable media is never a good idea. Many apps, including Word, store temp files in the same folder as the working file and, with the limited residual capacity of much removable media, This can cause file corruption. I've seen severe cases of this with some apps.

I recommend copying the transported file to the HDD, working on it there, then copying the updated version back to the removable drive afterwards.

Cheers

[MS MVP - Word]

 

[Madawc]

One option is to create a folder with a date-based name, e.g. 20081215. Copy files into that folder. No problem with duplicates and you also know its age automatically.

Your true backup should be to something safer, CD or DVD.

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Windows XP & Crystal 10

 

[fumei]

CD is not safe. I do not know about DVD, but for sure I have had CD data unreadable.

I agree with macropod. Removable media should not be the primary data holder. Copy files from it, work on them from a HDD, then copy back.

"What i'm looking for is a way to modify the file permission, and apply the change to all the 'new documents' i create in the future."

Could you explain this in more detail? What do you mean exactly by "new documents"?

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Gerry
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[Charkol]

Thanks everyone, i'll guess i'll find ways around working directly from my portable data sticks.

fumei
""What i'm looking for is a way to modify the file permission, and apply the change to all the 'new documents' i create in the future."
Could you explain this in more detail? What do you mean exactly by "new documents"?"

For this I was imagining there was a way to alter the settings imposed on a new document, any fresh blank document. Sort of how I can go into the font dialogue box and make changes to the font or spacing or something, so when i open any fresh new document it will open to the preprescribed font and spacing, or in this case 'file permission'. I was thinking if my issue were indeed a 'file permission' error, then i could make a change which would be applied to all documents i create in the future.

 

[fumei]

Huh?

"so when i open any fresh new document it will open to the preprescribed font and spacing,"

First of all, if this is a desired result, then you should use Word properly. It is designed to do precisely this kind of thing. Templates and Styles do exactly that.

"Sort of how I can go into the font dialogue box and make changes to the font or spacing or something"

Using Word properly (creating new documents from templates and using styles) one would never, ever, do that. Ever.

This is not - as far as I can see - a file permission issue at all.

In any case, even if it was, this would not work.


Gerry

 

[Charkol]

Sorry gerry, i must not have explained my problem in a way you could understand.

I did however figure out what the problem was however. Silly me, I had 'read-only' activiated in my folder property's attributes.

Thank you for the help everyone, i learned alot about safeguarding my electronic documents.

 

[fumei]

I had 'read-only' activiated in my folder property's attributes."

Ah, that would do it.

I am not sure what you think I misunderstood. I think I understood well enough. You wrote:

"Sort of how I can go into the font dialogue box and make changes to the font or spacing or something, so when i open any fresh new document it will open to the preprescribed font and spacing,"

I responded that this is easily achieved by proper use of Word. If you use templates then creating a new document (from the template) will have the defined fonts, spacing, or any other attribute you care to think of.

Gerry