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Printing in IE - Cannot find users/username/appdata....

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Hello all. At my place of work we have a few users who are all of a sudden experiencing issues when trying to print through IE. They have a website they go to for some loan documents and need to print them. A few weeks ago they were able to just fine, now they cannot.

When trying to print they get a dialog box that states:

Cannot find
'file:///C:/Users/username/AppData/Local/Temp/23/about:blank'.
Make sure the path or Internet address is correct.

I have noticed that sometimes instead of 23 being in the file path it will be 29, or some other random number. I tried resetting IE with no luck. They can print fine through Chrome but I guess the company who houses the loan software doesn't want them to use Chrome because portions of their product don't work well with it. (imagine that)

Ideas? I am tempted to tell them to use IE for the site as a whole but when printing to just use Chrome. It's a band-aid for sure but at least they would be able to print their docs.
 

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They have a website they go to for some loan documents and need to print them. A few weeks ago they were able to just fine, now they cannot.

Raise a Support ticket with the Website Admin ( ask for an explanation from their IT department )
 
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Raise a Support ticket with the Website Admin ( ask for an explanation from their IT department )

So you believe it's a problem on their end, not ours...correct?
 

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they are the ones best to answer your support questions
If it was previously possible to "print their loan documents" and nothing has changed at your end then yes they may have changed /implemted something to prevent printing
 

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I've seen issues with legacy bank/loan software requiring IE. I would start a ticket with them as well...and have them send proper documentation for how to setup IE and which version(s) of IE are supported...because sadly, some even go as-far-as not supporting IE10/11....as scary as that sounds it is true. For vendors touting any kind of security...relying on such legacy software and browser(s) is incredibly dangerous IMHO.

If they can print through Chrome, then I would try to confirm which things don't work with it...maybe the vendor is upgrading their services to be more compatible with other platforms (one can hope right?). There is an IE plugin for Chrome that may or may not work as well to improve IE view compatibility to Chrome...but odds are for an application like this that plugin will not help.
 
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