Word could not create the work file error

THANK YOU!!! I had the same problem after backing up my HD to an external drive. It changed the entry to point to the external drive for TEMP, Favorites, History, and Cookies.

Thank you you saved me a lot of time. I was about to reinstall all again.

Thanks so much for this. I have been fighting for a day to get this fixed!

Thanks. Exact same issue - I rearranged the cables in my computed and apparently the drive letter got reassigned from G to F. As usual Microsoft knowledge base made me try all kinds of useless fixes.

Does this also work for 2007? I haven't been able to figure it out.

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I had after backing up my HD to an external drive. It changed the entry to point to the external drive for TEMP, Favorites, History, and Cookies.

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I am amazed why would a DriveCloning software will tinker with this? I've also used Drive Cloner may times and have never landed with such issues. It's strange, was it a bug with DriveClone Pro version? How did you find it out btw? because regedit isn't a good place to tinker.

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It's strange, was it a bug with DriveClone Pro version? How did you find it out btw? because regedit isn't a good place to tinker.

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It's strange, was it a bug with DriveClone Pro version? How did you find it out btw? because regedit isn't a good place to tinker.

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I would've just reinstalled windows. that's a pretty smart find.

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You need to check your "Environment Variables" on the Advanced tab in System
Properties. It sounds like the Temp folder is either invalid or it points to
a
folder you don't have sufficient permissions for. This might help you.
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Outlook - arrggh, I understand your frustrations man. Thanks for sharing and logging these issues.

I am getting this error when I load a file in Word 2000.Tried everything I could find on the MS site - nothing works.

I have suffered through this problem several time and I always reinstalled every thing but now I have got the solution after reading your post.Thank you very much for giving me the solution.

I've had a similar problem to this in the past except with Excel. I never did get the problem straightened out though since I was going to get a new computer anyway. I've never had this problem with Word.

This is great.. You could have re-installed MS Office.. But, its good that you didn't do that.. Solving the bugs lets you learn more..! This is an example for it..!
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i checked the registry for my temp folder settings and the cache was assigned to the wrong drive which is now a DVD ROM. DriveClone Pro must have changed my TEMP folder when I installed it.

Thanks for the info. How can I prevent facing this same problem in the future? Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

i checked the registry for my temp folder settings and the cache was assigned to the wrong drive which is now a DVD ROM. DriveClone Pro must have changed my TEMP folder when I installed it.

Thanks for the info. How can I prevent facing this same problem in the future? Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

Word could not create the work file error? What seems to be the problem? Is there a way to prevent this thing from happening in the future?

Thanks for the info. It works for office 2007 as well. I think the problem is associated with western digital external hard drives

I have the same problem with this. very confusing at the moment. I finally found how to solve it. thanks for berbebagi knowledge.

Is there a way to avoid this thing from happening to my own site? How did you fix it?

I simply pointed the registry entry to my temp folder start Word and it works fine. Look at Aion online.

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So, what was the problem? Please discuss this more. Thanks for sharing this. At least, now I know what to do in case this happens.

Thanks for this. Luckily, I haven't experiemce this kind of problem. It's a good thing that the problem was solved.

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I had this problem too and I found out that your information could help me. I'm so glad that I can fix it because it's so annoyed me.

I've had this happen to me before too. Thanks for the tips to fix it.

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Thanks for the info, I been having trouble with this. In the past I've had to reinstall windows :(

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thanks... that fixed it.
you are the only site I coudl find with the reg fix.

You are amazing. This article saved me so much frustration. Thanks!

WOW! That fixed all my problems! It's funny how one little registry entry can affect so much on a system.

By the way... The reason why I ran into a problem in the first place is because I just deleted a partition on my hard drive (to free up some space). The 'Cache' registry entry was still pointing to that partition that no longer exists (and Microsoft got confused and kept throwing those annoying errors).

Thanks for the help TildeMark!

I have MS 2007 on windows 7, and I tried your fix it didn't work. I have no idea how to fix this error and because of this error it wont let me save word document or attach documents to emails that contain pictures. Any help anyone could provide in this matter would be much appreciated.

great fix! wtg! w00t!

THANK YOU...I've been going crazy trying to figure this out. It affected both word and outlook.

I did try to make the changes through system - the advanced tab and environment...but for some reason it wouldn't work and I needed to do it through regedit!

Thank you for replying on the forum (a random act of kindness seeing that you had already written this post- that's how I found your blog.

I work from home and spent pretty much most of today rebooting with each change and trying to fix it until I saw your post I was practically in tears. Now I'm ready to pay the kindness forward.

To others - works with Vista and office 2007.

I just tried this and it didn't work (I have Windows 2007). Any other advice? BTW, I wasn't messing with any kind of drive or anything different than what I normally do. It just started happening randomly today. Earlier, my anti-virus scanner had shown a virus which I removed and I wonder if it's related to that. Any advice is appreciated!

Tried using this for Word 2007, But No Luck? :(

Any advice?

Thanks for posting such a simple, clear fix to this problem!!

tried this but no joy. this error appeared in outlook after user defragged disk.
also tried:
checked all env variables appear fine
removed all data from %system%\temp & %localuser%\temp.
tried repairing outlook

next checking the permissions on all users.

any other suggestions?

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Thanks for you sharing. I have the problem after I remove my Virtual RAM Drive.

The registry point to my RAM Drive latter Z:\temp.

After I fixed registry. Office 2007 run as normal.

Alfredo,

Thank God for your blog entry. I'm under tremendous deadline pressure right now. Your concise treatment of the problem is a lifesaver.

Paul

thank you so much! you have help me so much! keep up the good work!

Thanks for your blog... It really helps

Thanks for your help

thanks. I able to solved the problem now.

I also came across the same situation when i was trying to open my ost file then it showed some error:

The error does not say that the ost file is corrupt, it says:

The file c:\...\...\.ost is in use and could not be accessed. Close any
application that is using this file, and then try again.