Topic: MS Office 2003 - New file created when changes are made to a file (Read 4955 times)

cito · « **on:** February 25, 2009, 08:05:27 AM »

Hello, hoping someone can assist with the following

We are using a DNS-321 as a network share within the office.

The network shares contains an assortment of MS Word and MS Excel files.

The client PC's all have MS Windows XP Professional SP3.

If a change is made to a say a MS Word file, a new file is created of 1kbyte in size that has the same name as the original file but with a $$ (or something like this in front of it).

This file when opened asks for encoding method and just returns garbage in the document.

Now I am gathering this file is being created because of the difference between the Windows file system that that the clients are using and the unix file system that the DNS-321 is using.

Should this really be happening though, shouldnt these files be hidden from the end user.

On the client PC's

'Tools --> Folder options --> view'

'Hidden files and folders' is set to 'hide'

and

'Hide protected operating system files' is set to hide.

Hope someone can shed some light on this.

Kind Regards

Andrew

fordem · « **Reply #1 on:** February 25, 2009, 11:53:13 AM »

That's Microsoft Office - when a document is opened, Office opens a temporary file, which on a NTFS volume would be hidden from the users, however, due to differences in the way file attributes are handled by linux's ext2 file system, they are not hidden on an ext2 volume.

Please note - the files are also created on a Windows file system, they are just not visible.

The temporary files can simply be ignored - they will be deleted when the user closes the document.

cito · « **Reply #2 on:** March 06, 2009, 01:11:06 AM »

Quote from: fordem on February 25, 2009, 11:53:13 AM

That's Microsoft Office - when a document is opened, Office opens a temporary file, which on a NTFS volume would be hidden from the users, however, due to differences in the way file attributes are handled by linux's ext2 file system, they are not hidden on an ext2 volume.

Please note - the files are also created on a Windows file system, they are just not visible.

The temporary files can simply be ignored - they will be deleted when the user closes the document.

Thank you for the response, you have confirmed what I have suspected, however the temporary file is not being deleted after the file has been closed, hence the reason it is seen by the end user.

From what I have seen the documents are not being closed improperly, neither is the application (Excel/Word) crashing on save. So what other reasons could cause the temporary files not being automatically removed?

fordem · « **Reply #3 on:** March 06, 2009, 09:24:25 AM »

That I have no answer for - it may be a permissions issue, the temp files are deleted as expected with my DNS-323

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