HELP. I can't save word documents on my memory stick, though I still have lots of space??

Question

I get a message saying: "Word cannot complete the save due to a file permission error"
It only happens on the removable disk. I can save the file to my documents with no problems. HELP PLEASE

Thanks a lot for all of you. I have tried all of that with no change. I can save to another memory stick but not my first one (which has almost all of my files). Any thing else I can do??

Answer 1

Hi
No solutions I'm afraid, but some more info:
- I have this on one Dell PC with vista and not the other
- it is only Word that behaves this way, other Office products and notepad work fine
- it doesn't matter which USB slot or stick I use
- if I've created the Word doc elsewhere and save to the USB stick it's fine, but if I edit that document and try to save again to the USB drive I get the error message and my doc is deleted
Many of the techie boards talk about Norton Anti-Virus which we don't use, but try these links below - as I am too.
Sal

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Word won't save directly to removable media.

Save files to your hard drive FIRST. Then, drag & drop the file to your Memory stick.

Answer 4

Are you on a terminal? if so, you admin may have blocked writing to a removable drive. You may also want to check if your drive has any problems, try defragmenting it, it will detect any disk errors.

Answer 5

Your memory stick may be write protected. Check if there is a small switch/knob to turn off the protection.