Word 2007 leaves many temp files behind
In looking around my relatively new Vista Business machine, I see in C:\Users\name\AppData\Loca
I do not close down any application (including Word) uncerimoniously, and I know from experience that doing so can leave copious temp files in the normal temp folder.
Does anyone have an explanation for them?
Thanks, .... T
I do not close down any application (including Word) uncerimoniously, and I know from experience that doing so can leave copious temp files in the normal temp folder.
Does anyone have an explanation for them?
Thanks, .... T
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If there are other ideas, I will be pleased to test and report. Thanks, .... T
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Here is an update. Today I did not get to this computer until about noon. Turned off. When I turned it on, I dealt with email first. Now I received several emails and sent two with Outlook 2007 (the Office suite is Office 2007 Professional). The number of temp files increased by exactly two. So it is Outlook doing it (because it uses Word as its editor) but does not appear to be Word itself. I will keep checking .... T
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I continue to see if this can be resolved - not so far as I can see.
My earlier post is incorrect and misleading. Yes, using Outlook to create emails causes these "work" files to appear. However, using Word to just open a file (and so presumably editing it) also causes these "work" files to appear. If Outlook is open (usually the case on my computers), then you cannot delete today's files, just the prior day and earlier. If I close Outlook and close Word, then all the files can be deleted.
However, so far as I can see, they just continue to build. No process (including Disk Cleanup) deletes these files - it is a manual process.
.... T
My earlier post is incorrect and misleading. Yes, using Outlook to create emails causes these "work" files to appear. However, using Word to just open a file (and so presumably editing it) also causes these "work" files to appear. If Outlook is open (usually the case on my computers), then you cannot delete today's files, just the prior day and earlier. If I close Outlook and close Word, then all the files can be deleted.
However, so far as I can see, they just continue to build. No process (including Disk Cleanup) deletes these files - it is a manual process.
.... T
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The second link was more interesting. It said, in part " They are not copies of the document and you don't lose anything if you delete them. In fact, with Word closed, you should not ever find any. If you do, that means that Word didn't shut down properly. You're okay to close all instances of Word, and search your hard drive (including hidden files) and delete any ~$ files you find."
To this end, I shut down Word properly every time, and they are most clearly not deleted on their own.
I will keep watching. Maybe tomorrow, I will see if I can go the day without using Word and see where that takes me. ... T