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From: ngg@bridge2.3Com.Com (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 6.0.2  and Word
Message-ID: <348@bridge2.3Com.Com>
Date: 17 Feb 89 19:46:17 GMT
References: <35727@bbn.COM> <730@wpi.WPI.EDU> <330@bridge2.3Com.Com> <866@wpi.wpi.edu>
Reply-To: ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger)
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In article <866@wpi.wpi.edu> jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu (John Dutka) writes:
>It MAY be your opinion, but you know littleof the situation.  The guy saved
>the document pretty often.  What killed the document was a crash.  Word
>crashed, and in the process, trashed the file.  If it just saved the old doc
>to a temp file, and THEN wrote the new file, things would have worked out
>perfectly...

There is no guarantee that any file, specially if its a very large file
that it will save properly, I don't care what computer your running, if 
this is the case where the save trashed the file when it crashed then
implies the other concepts of file security, ie if its VERY important,
and you cannot afford to lose it, back it up. Or do a save as to another
volume, that should protect your work. From the original posting it was
easy to assume that this person did none of the above, he was not saving
regularly, and created a very large file, and it was not backed up since
it was obviously important enough to create a major problem for him...
I think its logical to braek large documents into smaller documents, they
can be easier to deal with and manipulate then large ones and perhaps can
save one a real headache should something go wrong.... 15-20 pages should
be a easily manipulatable document, though I am not sure how large the
document that this person lost, though 8 hours of work would seem to indicate
that it was quite large....Perhaps Microsoft should include some computer
and docuement safety tips in its manuals...but that should not replace
common sense...


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