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Michael, 

Many programs make a search of the drives included for saving their files and thus if you save to a portable media, such as a Floppy, ZIP, CD-R or CD-RW, or even a portable hard drive, those programs will give you an error message (some very persistent in doing so) and until you put something (any disk) in that drive, it keeps giving you that error. The only way, most times to eliminate the error is to find the file and make sure it's not listed somewhere the program is going to look. It doesn't seem to have to see the file, just the media that the original off loaded file was saved to. Those who issue Preview images will normally be included in this. 

Besides the fact that if you save directly to a portable media, it's not uncommon to have a corruption that is unrecoverable. Saving it first to the hard drive (and, of course one not presenting sector problems) is normally very stable. Once stable there, Copy/Paste to the portable media and it's usually a good idea to make a portable backup as well, and prior to deleting the original from you hard drive, test the portable media file and it's backup. Particularly important for those very especially important "keeper" files. 

Bob