
You will thereafter be able to save normally (for a while, anyway). on the user's local drive).Ī final workaround is, when this problem arises, quit Word, saving the file to your local hard drive, and launch Word again. setting up network user accounts that are defined to have home folders located at /Users/ (i.e.using OS X server mobile network accounts.Two measures that do seem to deal with these obstacles are: Moreover, while network accounts may be configured to redirect cache files to the users local hard drive, MS applications do not play well with those measures. Network accounts can have performance issues running MS Office applications, though, because your cache files are being saved to a server, rather than locally. where your home directory is on the server) the problem does not arise. If you log into your workstation using a network account (i.e. In that case, regardless of how you log on to the server, the folder name in the TemporaryItems folder will use your local UID, which is very often 501 or 502, not your unique network UID.įurther, the first two workarounds are not 100% accurate - the trigger is not how you log into the server or whether you have a shared directory service, it is how you log onto your workstation. What the article does not fully explain is that this happens to users who log into their workstations using local accounts. (local UID)/TemporaryItems." directory is deleted, preventing any other currently-logged in users that are using the same UID from saving from Microsoft Office applications. However, when one of the users logs out of the local client, the "/.TemporaryItems/folders. Another security-related issue that can cause the Word experienced errors when trying to open the file could be related to the trusted location settings on the application.

Fix 3: Add a Trusted Location on MS Word.

Microsoft Office applications use a "safe save" that stores files in the TemporaryItems folder that's on the same volume as the file. Afterward, you can just reload the Word application and try to open your DOC/DOCX file on it.
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