macWord weirdness

[ksmith]

MacWord just gave me a scare. As you know. Bob, I am in the middle of revisions, which means that I have multiple files open at one time, and I'm doing a lot of Search/Replace and saving a lot. I made some changes to a chapter, then tried to save it only to find that the chapter had been renamed with a 4-digit designator (and some text I can't recall) and that I could not save it due to permission issues. I tried with another file, and couldn't save that to either the hard drive or the flash drive. When I changed the file to rtf, I could save it.

Other weirdness: all the files vanished from the folder for this iteration Endgame, and for a couple of other folders. This disappearance only occurred when I tried to open the files via Word--when I checked the folders in Finder, all the files were there. I was therefore able to cut/paste some files into the flash drive folder and save my work. I then shut down Word. Checked Macaroni, and found that the Repair Permissions program had run yesterday. I went ahead and ran it again.

Opened up Word again, and all the files were there.

This has never happened before. I had activated Autosave after Word crashed on me last week--I deactivated it since I've heard that the autosave functions can get gummy.

My iBook is almost 3 years old--do these things have an expiration date?

Comments

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

Disk utility is in APPLICATIONS folder and is called Disk Utility.app. To repair anything however you need to boot from the system disk (Restart computer holding down the c key. When awake, don't install the system but go to menu item "Disk Utility". Run that. It will do it's magic and then restart the computer as normal.)

Just in case you wanted to know...

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

This is good to know--thanks!