Saving A File/Document To Two Separate Locations On 1 Saving Action.

Good link, thanks.

Hello Techno;

Thank you so much for the link.

You can set micro soft word to save all documents when you close the document. So then if you save it to one place then when you close the word progam it will auto save a copy to a pre determined location I would be afraind of some documents having the same name and over writing documents.

I thought that was what RAID systems did - mirror the current system. I could be mistaken.

/Ari (orpheuse)

Only RAID level 1

To read about RAID levels read here

Judging from your description, where G:\ is the extra HDD, it appears what you want to do is duplicate an internally stored file on an external, and thus portable, HDD. Sorry to tell you but, no, you won't be able to do that; nor will RAID mirroring (in any of its forms) accomplish what you seek either...and it's doubtful your system is set up with the RAID cards it would need to even do the mirroring to a second disk (with third disk as backup). Besides all that, any alternative (imaginary method) based on the technologies mentioned would probably involve more time and tedium than simply saving the document to two files...if they would work in real life.

Nor will setting Word to Backup Auto Save (or Timed Backup Save) work...as the the Auto-Backup document is saved when the working document is opened, not when it closes. Timed backup, in similar fashion, is only as duplicative of the working document as it was at the last timed save interval at which a copy of working was saved to the backup location. And besides all that, Timed and Auto-saved backup documents are saved with a different file extension. In order to open them later as, say, Word (Filename.doc) documents you would need to change the file extension to .doc. There would be no same-name file save conflict (only) if you had set the word processor to save auto/timed backup files to the G:\ drive. But the time to do all this housekeeping, as well as side-by-side comparing of the two saved versions to verify alikeness...probably would only add to the time otherwise needed to do things the "normal" way you're aleady doing them.

One way to expedite the file saving, however, would be to save a file in My Documents containing the path to the G:\ drive folder where you keep all the duplicate document files. When you create or open a C:\-stored document, also open the "SavePath2G" document. When you're ready to save the current, working (file.doc) document, first save the working document from the tool bar. Next, copy the path in the opened SavePath2G document to the clipboard. Then, in the working document, open "Save As" from the menu bar, paste the pathway from clipboard into the Save-As dialog. Next, look at title bar of the working document and type that, appended with Doc. eExtension, at end of path in the Save To dialog. Click OK. Now close the working document. Of course, saving to G:\ by browsing is still probably less time consuming.

Sorry I could only help you to understand that no one will be able to help you achieve the double save objective. If you only had parallel processing.

I thank you all for your replies and learning assistances.