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Backup failure because of an opened word document

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Hi everyone,
I'm using True Image for several years already, but got now for the first time the attached error message. There was still a word document opened on the source drive.
Can anyone comment?

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Klaus, welcome to these public User Forums.

The error message indicates that your backup source is on a network location \\Fritz-nas\ and the file in question is a temporary file created by Word when a document is open in the application.

Perhaps the simple answer here would be to add an Exclusion to your backup task for ~$*.docx (or ~*.docx) so that such files are ignored when the backup encounters them.