On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:01:03 +0100, Sorin Srbu wrote: >I get this more or less regularly. Haven't a cure yet. The document >sizes range from a simple text-only two-pager to whole 100pp+ >dissertation papers with graphs, formatting, pictures, you name it. > >Like at your place, the event logs are uninformational, to say the >least... > >A few times I've been able to copy the whole content, close down >word and starting it a-new and pasting the contents back, after >which a save was possible. This succeeds about one time in five... > >So far I've blamed Office 2000 for being buggy, and let it be at >that, and advised the users to save their documents in versions, >like document_v1.doc, document_v2.doc etc. > >And, oh, I hate mondays too... 8-] Was there ever a consensus on why the problems occurred? Or do we just continue blaming bad coding on the MS part? 8-) >--Original Message Text--- >From: Greg Reese >Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:36:37 -0500 > >Odd Message from Word > >I had a user who was working in Word 2000 and tried to save a >document. Nothing out of the ordinary, about 13 pages, three or >four embedded spreadsheets with about 10 rows each. > >When he tried to save it and got an error message about being out >of disk space or too many files being open. There are no space >problems on his pc or the network. We crashed his pc and opened >the auto recover file and got most of his work back. He can now >save it just fine. > >Has anyone seen this before? I have been asked to find out the why >of it but am not seeing much. The event logs have nothing in them. > > >Mondays are so much fun. > >Greg BW, Sorin # Sorin Srbu, Systems Engineer Web: http://www.farmfak.uu.se/organisk/ # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >> 5 signals >> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem, Mobile Phone: +46 (0)701-718023 # BMC, Box 574, Uppsala University Fax: +46 (0)18-4714474 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # # Public PGP key available on request. # # () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail # /\ # # # Harmless tagline follows: # # BOFH excuse follows: because of network lag due to too many people playing deathmatch ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor StressedPuppy.com Games Feeling stressed out? Check out our games to relieve your stress. http://www.StressedPuppy.com ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm