Re: Word very slow on "Save As"

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John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote:

When saving to disk, Word briefly needs three times the file size: if the
disk is tight for space, the machine will spend some time finding room.
Often, the place that is out of space is the system temporary files, which
come into play during the save.

Since these are hidden and you have to use the command line to get at them,
the simplest thing to do is power the machine down, count to ten, and
re-power it.  Quitting to power-down may take a long time...  A VERY long
time if you have File Vault enabled (say 'Yes' when prompted to reclaim
space...).  Restarting may also be slow: that's when the system tidies up
the released disk space.

After that, things should be back to normal speed.


I thought that I might point out here also that a Restart is not the same as doing a shutdown and then powering back up. Powering up from a shutdown does clean out the tmp file directories but just doing a restart does not. This has been a typical UNIX behavior for years and consequently was inherited by Darwin in the Mac OSX.

Also note that powering down a Mac using OSX and powering up again is not exactly the same as powering down, unplugging for about 30 seconds, then plugging in and powering up. However, this difference tends to only affect some very low level (primarily harrdware) functions. As far as "resetting" whatever software there is, the power down/up cycle is all that is needed to kill the tmp file directory contents from what I understand.


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