Thank you for being so patient with this- it is impossible to say with words
how much I appreciate it, especially as a novice. I should have posted some
sort of reply earlier, looking back, but there is little I can do now. I hope
it hasn't caused any trouble.
In any case, what is happening appears quite strange. Your description of the
file organization isn't confusing in the slightest, but for some reason the
script appears to be finding the archives just fine and then failing to pick
up on Word documents inside them. I've written a diagnostic script, uploaded
at http://pastebin.ca/3793824, which should hopefully help. Before you run it
though, be warned that the output will (if it works properly) list the names
of all the files in your backups. It won't print what's inside them, but
please don't hesitate to just say if you don't feel comfortable publishing
the names of all your files- I know I wouldn't, and others would certainly
feel the same.
Continuing on, if you are OK with the caveat: the script works much the same
as before. The only difference is where the file is published (see above),
and the command you have to run, which is (no quotes) "~/Downloads/gmsWord.sh
> ~/Downloads/output". If it gives you a permission denied error, you'll need
to run the 'chmod' command printed above again- "chmod +x
~/Downloads/gmsWord.sh"- but apart from that, there shouldn't be much, if
any, output to the screen. The stuff that might then shed some light on the
original script failing is what's in the 'output' file in your Downloads
folder- open that with Gedit, and then (once again, only if you feel
comfortable with doing so) paste it into a comment on this thread.
