Location for backup files?

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If I turn on "Always create a backup copy", can I specify the default
location for the backups to be stored? I'm using Windows XP Pro with Word
XP.

Ed
 
Ed said:
If I turn on "Always create a backup copy", can I specify the default
location for the backups to be stored? I'm using Windows XP Pro with
Word XP.
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Sorry, no. That so-called "backup" isn't really a backup copy -- it's just
the previously saved version of the document, renamed to "Backup of
xyz.wbk". Since it's a rename and not a copy, it will always be in the
folder where you opened the document.

See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/AutomaticSave.htm for much more about
this important topic.
 
Wow! Thanks for the info, both here and the FAQ. Okay - I'm asking this
because I almost got bit by a crash yesterday. (IT advised my supervisor to
start looking into getting me a new machine.) So I am (only now?!?) VERY
interested in backups!

There was a link on the FAQ to Graham Mayor's site, with a download for an
add-in. Not that I am in any way in Mr. Mayor's class, but would something
like this do for saving and backing up?

Dim doc1 As Document
Set doc1 = ActiveDocument
Dim FName As String
Dim FPath As String
FName = doc1.Name
FPath = doc1.FullName

doc1.Save
doc1.SaveAs FileName:="E:\Private\" & FName

ActiveDocument.Close
Documents.Open FPath

Ed
 
Hi Ed,

Either your macro or Graham's should work equally well. I think yours may
flicker a bit as the document closes and reopens. You may not mind that,
since it's a signal that the backup was accomplished.

If the problem on your machine is a failing drive (or it could be, on any
machine at any time), make sure the backup goes to a different physical
drive and not just a different partition on the same drive. A server on the
network would be a good place.
 
Thanks, Jay. It does go to a network drive.

Ed

Jay Freedman said:
Hi Ed,

Either your macro or Graham's should work equally well. I think yours may
flicker a bit as the document closes and reopens. You may not mind that,
since it's a signal that the backup was accomplished.

If the problem on your machine is a failing drive (or it could be, on any
machine at any time), make sure the backup goes to a different physical
drive and not just a different partition on the same drive. A server on the
network would be a good place.
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