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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / October 2007RE: Disk Full Error Word 2004
Hi, I have the Disk Full Error on a large report I have open currently. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q289545 After trawling through the MS help pages I have discovered that the problem is known and the recommended work arounds are such helpful things as * periodically close and reopen the document * turn off file sharing However, none of these are any use to me as I still need to save the file!! Ironically, I can save it to a pdf via the print command with no problems. Can anyone tell me how to save the file from Word? I was hoping there was some way of trashing the autosave files or something like that and doing a clean save... any tips on how to do this? On Oct 29, 5:27 pm, smar...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > was some way of trashing the autosave files or something like that and > doing a clean save... any tips on how to do this? Turns out the problem was a single embedded Microsoft Excel object. Upon deleting this lone object - from a report 200 pages long with many charts, diagrams, tables, figures etc. the file finally agreed to save. Yeah: For your future reference, "Disk full..." is a very old error message and quite non-specific. It's the ultimate catch-all that simply means "Word was unable to write the file to disk." When the error message was created, the most likely cause of that was that the disk WAS full. Now, that's the least likely cause. Clive gave to a method that will sort it out... Cheers On 29/10/07 4:20 PM, in article 1193640621.434574.105410@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com, "smarkyy@gmail.com" On Oct 29, 5:27 pm, smar...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > was some way of trashing the autosave files or something like that and > doing a clean save... any tips on how to do this? Turns out the problem was a single embedded Microsoft Excel object. Upon deleting this lone object - from a report 200 pages long with many charts, diagrams, tables, figures etc. the file finally agreed to save.  SignatureDon't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/ Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/ Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john@mcghie.name > Yeah: For your future reference, "Disk full..." is a very old error message > and quite non-specific. [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia > +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:j...@mcghie.name Yeah thanks... that was how I found it - some other pages on the net suggested copy paste to new document. So I did that... it didn't work, so then did bits and pieces until I finally found out where the problem was. A graphic (embedded MS Excel chart) which had been in the file for ages and ages was causing the problem. Looked fine on the screen, looked fine in a pdf, but wouldn't let me save when it was there. Go random corruption! Love it. > Yeah: For your future reference, "Disk full..." is a very old error message > and quite non-specific. [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia > +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:j...@mcghie.name Yeah thanks... that was how I found it - some other pages on the net suggested copy paste to new document. So I did that... it didn't work, so then did bits and pieces until I finally found out where the problem was. Dear [whoever], I can't find the original posts implied by the subject line starting with "RE:", so I don't know the background. However... Try keying Command-a to select the entire document, then holding down the Shift key and pressing the Left Arrow once. This de-selects the last paragraph mark. Copy that. Then open a new blank document and paste in the copied text. Save. It could well proceed without a problem. If that doesn't work, try copying parts of the document successively. After succeeding, quit Word, shut your Mac down and start it up again. By the way, making a PDF isn't saving, it's printing (despite the nomenclature in the Print window), which is why that works. Cheers, Clive Huggan Canberra, Australia (My time zone is 5-11 hours different from North America and Europe, so my follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed) ============================================================ * SUGGESTION -- KEEP REVISITING AFTER YOU POST: If you post a question, keep re-visiting the newsgroup for several days after the first response comes in. Sometimes it takes a few responses before the best or complete solution is provided; sometimes you'll be asked for further information. Good tips about getting the best out of posting are at http://word.mvps.org/Mac/AccessNewsgroups.html and http://word.mvps.org/FindHelp/Posting.htm (if you use Safari you may see a blank page and have to hit the circular arrow icon -- "Reload the current page" -- two or more times). ============================================================ On 29/10/07 4:27 PM, in article 1193639226.015849.119490@v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com, "smarkyy@gmail.com" > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > was some way of trashing the autosave files or something like that and > doing a clean save... any tips on how to do this? |
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