Re: Word 2004 constant disk access
- From: "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 23:12:32 +1000
I'd love to know how you got into that condition. It doesn't happen here
(or anywhere else that I have heard).
My first thought would have been "You're out of memory", but you have 1 GB
of memory...
So: What's ON the disk that Word is going for all the time?
We're talking about "letters", so presumably they're not full of graphics.
They are "short" documents, so Word is not paging out the editing buffer.
So: try this:
1) Quit Word
2) Reboot your computer (I want Unix to clean up its temporary files...)
3) Find your Normal template and rename it.
4) Restart Word. ONLY Word! Make sure Word is the only thing running for
this test.
5) Go to Word>Preferences>Save. Make sure Allow Fast Saves is OFF and
Always Make Backup is ON. Go to Tools>Track Changes>Highlight Changes...
Turn "Track changes while editing" OFF and turn the other two options ON.
This ensures you can see changes in the document if they have been tracked.
6) Create "Trash.doc", save it, and Quit Word (this ensures the new Normal
template is saved to disk).
7) Restart Word. Create a new document. Create a few paragraphs full of
junk text. Copy these and paste until you have about 100 pages worth. Save
the document.
Now, try editing and moving around in that document, and tell me what is
happening. Chances are, you won;t get your problem.
Now open one of your previous documents. Chances are your problem will come
back. If it does, the problem is likely to be a combination of Track
Changes and Fast Saves. Each of these causes Word to keep every editing
change you have ever made in a file on disk, in case you need to refer to
it.
If that happens in a document you are working on, Word will make constant
disk accesses looking for the changed text. If that has happened to your
Normal template, alll documents you touch will be slow.
Word keeps stuff on disk if you are out of memory, if you are editing with
tracked changes on, or if you have fast saves enabled.
Hope this helps
On 19/6/05 3:02 PM, in article
1119157369.022309.218630@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"amtravco001@xxxxxxxxxxx" <amtravco001@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This has been a problem with Word 2004 for years. It gets into a mode
> where every operation requires a disk access. I type a letter - I hear
> the disk. I delete the letter - another access. I page down - big disk
> access. I page up - another access. Of course, all this disk access
> slows things to a crawl.
>
> The problem is intermittent. I can restart Word and it will go away.
> Then Word runs only at its ordinary frustratingly slow rate, but it is
> sort of usable. (It's slow enough that I dread to have to scroll back 5
> pages to look at something in my document. Instead, I split the pane in
> two. This way, my scroll back may be slow, but I can get to my original
> point simply by unsplitting the pane).
>
> If anyone can solve this, they will have solved years of frustration
> for me. BTW, I just happened to do a clean install of Tiger, and then
> Word with all updates, and nothing has changed.
>
> PB 667, 1GB ram.
>
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