Mystery of the Lost Document Changes

[ianh]

I think you've identified the issue here. I was editing a stored copy of a file that still existed externally (as I thought this would be safer than moving them!) and the URL to the local copy was still present. Point 3 above seems to explain the behaviour I was victim of perfectly. It's not clear to me how file|save would work differently though, as I'd have thought this would also be interfered with by the lock on the word temp file, but I'll take your word for it. I clearly don't get the conceptual difference between synchronizing and saving.

I noticed the local copy is updated although Word was used to edit the stored copy retrieved from UR - is this what the URL to the local copy is used for, namely synchronizing to the local copy as well as the stored one?

[PS - could this also explain the problems janriff was having in his 11-16-2007 posting?]

I just tried to edit my document again. This time I did nothing except open the document, edit it, save the document in word and exit word. Nothing got saved in the UR database. My confidence in this is now at rock bottom.