Err Msg: "Can't Find File" When Saving Write File to Disk

• Microsoft Windows operating system versions 3.1, 3.11

SUMMARY

When you save a file from Windows Write to a floppy disk, you may encounter one or both of the following error messages:

   Error Message 1
   ---------------

       <drive>:\<filename>
       Cannot find this file (or "cannot read this file")

   Where <drive>:\<filename> refers to the file that Windows is unable
   to locate or read.

   Error Message 2
   ---------------

      Either something has happened to the network or possibly the
      file has been renamed or moved. Do you want to try again?

CAUSE

This error message occurs when the file that you attempt to save on a floppy disk originated from a different floppy disk that has been removed from the drive.

This error message occurs because Write needs to read from the file's original source file in order to save the file to another destination. In this case, since the disk was removed from drive A and another disk was placed in the drive, the original source file cannot be found.

WORKAROUND

Since Write is unable to locate and read the source file, you must either save the file to the hard drive with the original source disk still in the floppy drive, or save the file first to the hard drive, then save to another floppy disk.

Once the file is resident on the hard drive, Write has a permanent source file that it can locate, read to memory, and save to a second floppy disk.

This situation does not occur if you saved TEST.WRI to the A drive, replaced the floppy disk in the A drive, and attempted to save the document to the hard drive again as TEST.WRI. This saving procedure works because when the Write file was saved to the floppy disk, a temporary file was written to the TEMP directory on the hard drive; Windows will locate and read this file in order to save the file to the hard drive but it cannot locate this file to save it to a floppy disk.