Disapearing Presentations

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Clayton

I have seen a few times clients have powerpoint crash, and the presentation
simply disapears from where they are working on it.

This is usually on PP2000.

This is behaviour that I have never seen in Excel or Word.

Does anyone know what I am talking about, is this a known problem, is there
any fix.

The users sure get upset, especially if they have been saving every 15
minutes like good little users, then after their computer crashes, the whole
thing is gone.

SB
 
One workaround for your clients: Check into the Sequential Save Add-in. It
is available from Shyam's site at URL:
http://www.mvps.org/skp/seqsave.htm

This will save the file under a new name every time. This way, even if the
most recent file disappears, the older ones are still there.

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I can see how that could be useful.

My question remains though - is this a known problem? Does it happen to
people? Is this why sequential save exists?

SB
 
The reason the add-in exists is because too many users don't create a backup
of their presentations. Then, when they mess up and delete their only copy,
or write overtop of it, or any of a number of things happen to corrupt the
file, they come here and complain.

If you can get your users to follow the ideas on this page from the PPT FAQ:
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00034.htm
you will reduce the likelihood that the problems happen.

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I've never seen an entire file disappear. I *have* seen the file become
corrupted, but even after a crash, there's always been a file of some
sort.

I wonder if, when your users are saving every 15 minutes, if that just
means they have the autosave feature turned on in Tools/Options. That
just saves autorecovery information for PPT to restore the file (if
possible) in the event of a crash. It's not the same as doing a
File/Save or CTRL+S every now and then.

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00108.htm has some recovery
techniques. You might try the one about searching for TMP files.
 
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