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I have owned a new Mac Book Pro for several months and use it at home and at my office. Setting it up at the office was not problem including mapping the drives on the server and access to shared printers.
However, I am becoming a challenge to my coworkers. Every time I access a shared network drive and work on a document (MS Office for MAC) or save a document I have created, my Mac leaves shadow files on the drive in the folder I have been working. They show the icon of the Office program I am working in but they are greyed out and do not represent the last version of my document. That version is there just as it should be and everyone call use it but these annoying "shadow files" are there as well.
When I look at the folder I have been working in I can't see these files but my Windows co-workers can.
I have two questions:
1. How can I keep my Mac from leaving these "shaodw files" behind?
2. If there is now way I can keep them from being left on the server, is there a way I can view them and then delete them.
Thank you,
Rex

Quote:
"Devon Technologies' free EasyFind can be easily configured to search WordPerfect documents (and for real Corel Office devotees, Quattro Pro spreadsheets and Paradox databases).
It won't do so by default, but if you click the light switch icon in the lower left of the EasyFind panel, a drawer will open with lists of file extensions to search. Just add the appropriate file extensions (wpd, wp [WordPerfect], wb3, wb2 [Quattro Pro], and db [Paradox]) to the list."
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080501204134329&query=spotlight

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