tmp files created when saving document.

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Clementius

Hi,
One of our users creates presentation with several graphs and other inserts.
Whenever she saves the file, a tmp file is created in the folder where the
original file is stored. When she closes the original file, the tmp files
remain in the folder. When I try to open the tmp files, they include the
same info than the original file. She's annoyed about having to delete all
these tmp files regularly. Any suggestions on how to prevent this? Thank
you. C
 
You could write an add-in that would, on closing a presentation, look for
tmp files in the presentation directory and delete them. However, I don't
think this would be a good idea. There is a good possibility that useful
data could be eliminated in the process. It would be problematic to delete
tmps while the PowerPoint program is open.

You may be better off writing a VB6 app that looks for tmp files in the
presentation folders and is run by the windows scheduler once a week at
midnight on Friday.


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You may be better off writing a VB6 app that looks for tmp files in the
presentation folders and is run by the windows scheduler once a week at
midnight on Friday.
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Or launch Powerpoint via a link to a BAT file instead of to the PPT exe itself.

The BAT file would first delete all the .tmp files in the folder where PPT's
creating them, then launch PPT.
 
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