Word 2013 - 'The directory name is not valid' error
I recently installed office 365 home premium, and have been running word. i transferred all my schoolwork from a usb flash drive to skydrive so i wouldn't have to use the flash drive. i found that it was a bit slow, so i saved a copy of the work onto the
hard drive. After this i renamed both the hard drive and the folder my work was in to a better suiting name. i opened word to continue my document. using 'open other documents', i located my work on the hard drive and attempted to open it. i receive the error
message 'the directory name is not valid (C:/.../English - THE BRANDON SECRET F...)'
I found the problem. I had moved an entire folder (with the work inside) from skydrive to the hard drive. when I tried to open a file, its location was listed as "C: CharliesWindows" (which is the name of my hard drive). it should have been listed as C:HOMEBUSH
(which is the name of the folder inside the hard drive). in word, I located the same file with the 'HOMEBUSH' location and it works fine. I also located the file in file explorer and it worked fine from there as well.
I can't work out why there are two copies of the same file in the hard drive, one in a folder and one not. I looked in file explorer and there is only one, the one that works fine. Yet from Word I can still find the problem file in recent documents.
Thanks for your help, everything is working well at the moment.
- Charlie Prentice
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