Disk too full when it isn't.

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bmpinco

This question has probably been asked many times but I have been unable
to find an answer through the search mechanism so please humour my
ignorance and help an increasingly desperate LaTeX user forced into MS
Word use by his coauthors.

When I try to save a moderate sized MS Word file a pop-up says:

"The disk is full or too many files are open."

when I acknowledge this it is followed by:

"Do you want to retry the save?"

when I press okay I get:

"The disk is full trying to write to U::. Free some space on this
drive, or save the document on another disk.
Try one of the following:
* Close any unneeded documents, programs and windows.
* Save the document on another disk."

The same holds for U, P (both networked) or C (local) drives all of
which have plenty of space (indeed P approaches a terrabyte of free
space). Last time I saved the file it was 10,630,656k and while I have
only performed deletions since then I expect it will be bigger as I
think word keeps some sort of history information. The local machine
should be able to cope with the file as it has 1GB of ram and I have
been running it with word as the only application open.

Can you please help me?
 
T

TF

Go to Tools, Options, Save tab and make sure that FastSaves is NOT selected.
Also make sure that VERSION is not selected too.

Try saving the document in RTF formal and back again into Word Doc format.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://www.mvps.org/word/


This question has probably been asked many times but I have been unable
to find an answer through the search mechanism so please humour my
ignorance and help an increasingly desperate LaTeX user forced into MS
Word use by his coauthors.

When I try to save a moderate sized MS Word file a pop-up says:

"The disk is full or too many files are open."

when I acknowledge this it is followed by:

"Do you want to retry the save?"

when I press okay I get:

"The disk is full trying to write to U::. Free some space on this
drive, or save the document on another disk.
Try one of the following:
* Close any unneeded documents, programs and windows.
* Save the document on another disk."

The same holds for U, P (both networked) or C (local) drives all of
which have plenty of space (indeed P approaches a terrabyte of free
space). Last time I saved the file it was 10,630,656k and while I have
only performed deletions since then I expect it will be bigger as I
think word keeps some sort of history information. The local machine
should be able to cope with the file as it has 1GB of ram and I have
been running it with word as the only application open.

Can you please help me?
 
K

Klaus Linke

Hi bm,

I got the same error message in Word2003 (and some others in Word2002) all
the time too when I edited a 12 MByte file just yesterday.

Mostly I just did a lot of replacements. The only work-around seemed to save
the file frequently while editing.
When I did replacements with VBA, I additionally cleared the Undo buffer ...
ActiveDocument.UndoClear
ActiveDocument.Save
... assuming you have made backups, because this will keep you from undoing
the changes, and overwrites the old file!

You might also look out for temp files on your machine (~WR*.*, *.tmp) and
clean them out.
Once you have located your Temp folder, you can remove anything that's in
it.

Greetings,
Klaus
 
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