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My wife and I write together, each using Timeworks WordWriter on 
separate ST's. We continually run into a problem which we haven't 
been able to nail down.  The problem only happens when we're working 
together, and after we've swapped disks, though often it is long 
enough later that we've forgotten exactly what steps we took with 
each swapped disk.   

We swap disks to look at/make changes to one another's pieces 
of the project.  Often, we have two disks working that have many 
of the same file names, though not necessarily completely 
identical files on each. Even files with exactly the same 
information could probably be on different segments of the disk.  

Sometimes, when we get going fast and furious on the same story, 
we wind up unable to save to one disk or another.  We get a 
message approximately like: "Cannot find file to write.  Check to 
see if disk is write protected or in place." It's in place, and 
it's not write protected, but viewed through Mutil, a disk 
utility, it does seem to have some parts of some files overlapping 
other files--more specifically the files we want to access or save 
to.

It's very aggravating.  

We have a theory which we've been unable to field test because 
the problem always seems to come up when we're writing fast and 
furious and swapping disks and saving so many times that day that 
we can't remember every step we took every time. 

Our theory is that somehow one or another of us does/has done a 
"Save" without first opening some file from the disk. (In 
WordWriter, "Save" doesn't give you a file selector, while "Save 
as..." and "Save as ASCII" do.)   We theorize that the computer 
doesn't know we've changed disks, and so it prints_to_disk where 
it "thinks" the file is supposed to be, i.e. where the file would 
be if we hadn't swapped disks.  

We have the "Save" habit from way back before we had two 
computers, so it's hard(impossible) to remember to use "Save 
as..." all the time. 

Does this sound like a plausible explanation for our trouble? Does 
anyone know of a desk accessory or such that forces the computer 
to always check the disk somehow before it prints a file to it, 
and to make sure that it (WordWriter program, the computer, or 
whatever) checks for more than just the file_name, but looks at 
sectors or tracks or whatever it is that keeps it from plopping 
the one file down on top of another?  

We only swap single-sided disks.  We don't have and can't afford a 
hard drive, (and not having it, we can't share it in case that's 
the solution you're going to suggest; thanks, but we've thought of 
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it already.)

Thanks for any suggestions e-mailed to jtrimble@sdf.lonestar.org
If there are enough--or one that works--I'll post a summary.