Removing Word XP Auto Recovery Files

[Dogers]

on our terminal servers, we use a shared autorecovery folder (probably a bad idea, now i look at it, but hey..!) and some of our users, when they load word, are treated to a couple of unnamed files in the recovery list. clicking on them causes word to try and open them, which it cant, as the files dont actually exist! word then removes them from ths list, only for them to come back next time its opened. by clicking the menu for the file we can choose delete, ignore the error, and they dont seem to come back again.. however this would mean going round to alll the users and doing this for each of them! anyone know of an easier way?

 

[Zelandakh]

In Tools Options in Word, under Save is the auto recover save every X minutes. Untick that. That stops autorecover working. Also have startup do a deltree /y c:\temp\*.* or whatever temp foler you are using. This will delete the .tmp files that are used by autorecover.

 

[Dogers]

hm.. we'd actually prefer to keep the autorecovery system, as we've had a few times when either the TS or just word has died, but users have been able to recover their work through the autorecovery system! ill try removing the directory though, and see what word makes of it..