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Changes Not Saved To Document - Disable Write |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: A customer retrieved a document in WP 5.1 DOS, edited the document, saved the document with the changes, exited WP, and then rebooted. After the customer rebooted the computer, the customer started WP and retrieved the document. However, none of the changes the customer made to the document showed up. Solutions: The customer had recently installed MS-DOS 6.0, which installs SMARTDRV with both Write and Read caching enabled. After the customer disabled the Write caching option, the problem no longer occurred. Customers can disable Write caching by editing the SMARTDRV line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file to read as follows: C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE C How/Why: With Write caching enabled, documents saved are not actually written to disk until there is a determined period of system inactivity (normally several seconds). If a user saves a document in WP, exits WP, and then immediately reboots (or the power goes down), the necessary period of system inactivity does not occur, SMARTDRV does not write the file to disk, and none of the editing changes get saved. |
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