Can You Change The Location Where Word Saves ~$ Temp Files

[Fazza]

When you open a Word Document, Word creates a temporary file of the same name with ~$ at the beginning of it in the same folder that the Word Document is saved in (screenshot of an example attached).

 

We use Disk Quotas to allocate storage space to our students and some of them have extremely large Word files full of all sorts of media so when they come to actually save their Word Document they get told there is no room to save it. The reason for this is because they may have had 100MB of free space left when they started but when they opened up their Word Document the temp file has eaten up that space.

 

My question is this, is there a way of excluding these files from the Disk Quota we have on Server 2008R2 or is there a setting somewhere where we can tell word to save the ~$ temp files in a folder on the local computer rather than where the file is saved?

[Steve21]

There's the auto-recover file location GPO if it's that one? Honestly not sure if it does the temp file you mean or not though. e.g. Word -> Word Options -> Advanced -> File Location -> Autorecover files (GPO wise)

 

Steve

[Fazza]

There's the auto-recover file location GPO if it's that one? Honestly not sure if it does the temp file you mean or not though. e.g. Word -> Word Options -> Advanced -> File Location -> Autorecover files (GPO wise)

 

Steve

 

Thanks for your reply but that looks like just a setting for the Autorecover setting - unless you're saying that the temp file Word creates when you open a Word Document is the autorecover file?