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Karen wrote:
> I have ms bundled onwindows XP my hp pavilion 1335w. I have saved
> a lot of word processing documents for my new (3 mos.) job. Now
> when I try to re-open them for revisal, or even just to look at
> them, I get a msg in a small window that says "Works task launcher
> cannot open the file you selected. It may have been either moved
> or deleted." If I can't get to some of these, I will lose my job!
> And I don't even know where to go for help, this is the first
> place i've tried. Can someone either sove the problem, or tell me
> when I can go for the answer? Many thanks, Karen
Shenan Stanley wrote:
> In other words - you did not make multiple copies of these critical
> files?
Karen wrote:
> Obviously, I didn't. Do you have any encouraging suggestions?
Tom Pepper Willett wrote:
> Shenan doesn't supply encouraging suggestions. Just criticism or
> cut and paste responses. Someone who cares will answer. Please be
> patient.
Shenan Stanley wrote:
> Contrary to Tom Pepper Willett, my answer does point out something
> that you may think about in the future.. If you are doing something
> vitally important - you never rely on one copy in one location.
> Backups are key to peace of mind and insurability that you will
> complete your task(s) with everything intact.
>
> Assuming you are opening the files AFTER opening MS Works (from
> within MS Works itself) - the message seems to indicate that the
> file you are looking for may have been moved. Do you know the
> location it was saving them? Was it in "My Documents"? Have you
> looked in your "My Documents to make sure the files exist there?
> Have you tried to copy the files elsewhere and double-click on them
> to open? Have you looked in your recycle bin to be sure you have
> not erased them?
>
> Basically we need to be sure the files still exists where you think
> they should be (on the hard drive itself - not from within Works)
> before we get too worried about them being unreadable.
Tom Pepper Willett wrote:
> *now* you have attempted to provide an answer to the OP instead of
> criticism.
Did before - contrary to what you believe (future help if nothing else.)
And provided more detailed help AFTER confirming they had not - in fact -
backed it up to anything else..
For all I knew they were trying to read it from the CD Backup they had
burned it to previously - or perhaps they had emailed it to someone and
forgotten they had, copied it to external media and forgotten they had -
etc. A little reminder when you are freaking out is sometimes all it takes
to snap back to "Oh yeah! I also had it here" or "Well, I did attempt to
copy it somewhere else right before this problem happened.." and then we
come to realize they had (in fact) used Windows Explorer to move (they meant
to copy) the files from their my documents to another location so they would
have backups.. But then they opened Works and in the file history (which
would still list the old locations) the files would not open.. Because they
had accidentally moved instead of copied.
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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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