Re: Find Info>File Size Discrepancies

³You've left Fast Saves turned on. Turn it off... ³

Hi John,

I turned off Fast Save

In Help I found this:

³If you select the Always create backup copy check box on the Save tab in
the Preferences dialog box (Edit menu), Word clears the Allow fast saves
check box, because backup copies can be created only with full saves.³

(I have had ¹Always create backup copy¹ check box on as a safety should the
computer crash. This has saved my .... in the past. What didn¹t happen is
that ?Allow fast saves¹ was never cleared.)

³Select the Allow fast saves check box when you are working on a very large
document.³

(that¹s also why I ³allowed fast saves², because my MS is a whole novel.)

³However, a full save requires less disk space than a fast save.

You should do a full save in the following situations:
? When you finish working on a document and save it for the last time.³

(Does that mean going back to preferences and checking ³full save³ at the
end of a work period?)

³? Before you begin a task that uses a lot of memory, such as searching for
text or compiling an index.³

In fast save, I often search for text and don¹t have a problem.

As for floppies, my zip drive is not working and with the kind of five
minute or so back ups that I need to do, the CD burner isn¹t a practical
device.

Having used the floppies for a couple of weeks, I have been making
successful transfers of the 900k document. Do you mean that when the
original document is dragged over, it stays on the disk ? I don¹t understand
this happening because certainly 950x2 would be 1.9MB which the floppy
wouldn¹t take ? that the original document does not stay securely on my HD,
but is now only on the floppy? As above, I don¹t understand this as what¹s
been happening.

The floppies seem reliable enough (I make copies on two floppies) and I
frequently make a backup to CD.

Of course I like the Zip better. I¹m working with an apple peripherals disc
group now to try to fix zip drive.

Thanks, Rafael





Look in the help under "fast saves"

And don't save from Word to a floppy. Not EVER. They're not big enough,
and they're not reliable enough...

Close the document and transfer it using Finder. If you save, you need
twice the size of the document on the floppy, because Word writes the new
version before deleting the old one. If it fails because the disk runs out
of room, chances are you will lose both versions.

Cheers

On 19/8/05 9:39 AM, in article BF2A6A31.7C7A%raf44ael98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Montserrat" <raf44ael98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This problem may have come up before on the newsgroup, but I still don't
> understand it.
>
> I've been working with a 975k file and able to back up onto a 1.2mb floppy.
> I am presently forced to use these teeny-weeny disks. I've been working on
> the document in the HD and backing up onto floppy, since the file on both
> has been the same size. The only thing that I've done since the last backup
> is change around a few words in the header, and moved a couple of chapter
> beginnings down three inches. Nothing.
>
> Just now I went to back up HD doc to floppy and it wouldn't saying not
> enough room. In the get info for the HD document I get 2.2MB. I made a
> select copy paste into a new word document and get info says 1.2 MB. The
> bytes amounts in get infos are proportional to the differences in MB.
>
> I don't get it.
>
> Thanks
>

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John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410


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