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250284 2004-07-06 11:01:00 I'm running xp pro, 768 meg ram, I have Open Office Org 1.1.2 & MS Office XP installed. I copy & paste some text from a web page into Notepad & save it in My Documents as a .txt file. If I look in My Documents through Windows Explorer it's not there, but if I look with OO, MS Office or Notepad it's there. If I want to send one of these files as an attachment to an email it's a bit difficult if I can't see it. This can happen with any file, even jpg. I can type something into Notepad, OO or MS Office & that hides in Explorer too.

Any Ideas

Phil
phil.b (4456)
250285 2004-07-06 11:08:00 > If I look in My Documents through Windows Explorer it's not there

There is more than one "My Documents" folder in Win XP, are you sure you are looking in the right account's folder?

Try doing a search for a file just saved and see which My Documents it is going into.
Susan B (19)
250286 2004-07-06 11:10:00 It may be saving to another folder. If you know a name of the file, do a start-search for it. See precisely where it is residing. :D Pheonix (280)
250287 2004-07-06 11:12:00 Too slow... maybe natures way of saying time for bed. Night SusanB and any other night owls out there. Pheonix (280)
250288 2004-07-06 11:17:00 Thanks Susan, Somehow it had defaulted to the all users my documents.

Phil
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