naming or permissions error on the destination volume
The fault occurs unless a folder called .TemporaryItems has been created at the root level of any mounted volume containing the saved file; so if the user's home directory is contained in an AFP share called Homes, then there has to be a directory called .TemporaryItems in theHomes folder on the server. If the home directory is on another local volume called UserData, there has to be a directory called.TemporaryItems at the root of that volume.
Since .TemporaryItems is a dot file, it will not be visible in the Finder. When the application is able to create this .TemporaryItems directory, it is world writable and sticky. For improved security, as long as all users are in a common group like "staff," then the folder can be restricted to writing by the group instead.
$ cd /path/to/volume/or/sharepoint
$ sudo mkdir .TemporaryItems
$ chgrp staff .TemporaryItems
$ chmod 1770 .TemporaryItems
This seems to fix the problem, not just for Word, but PowerPoint and the other Office apps.
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- What version of Office for Mac 2011 are you running? (PowerPoint > About PowerPoint)
- What version of OS X are you running? (
> About This Mac)
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Office version is 14.1.0 (110310)
OS X version is 10.6.8
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You've used Disk Utility to repair DISK permissions. Try repairing USER permissions
http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion/
$ sudo mkdir .TemporaryItems
$ chgrp staff .TemporaryItems
$ chmod 1770 .TemporaryItems
solution is great, but a terrible security risk as any user can see other's Office tmp files which can be opened and viewed. I just tested it.
Go to the Finder's "Go" Menu
Choose "Go to folder..."
Drag and drop your Home Folder icon in the text box, delete your username off the end of the string and replace it with ".TemporaryItems"
and you can see everyone's tmp files!
/Network/Servers/server/Volumes/RAID/Staff1/.TemporaryItems

