Re: Word 2004 BUG: Disk full when it is not (OsX 10.4.4)

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Interesting: I have no repro of any error at all on that document (on an OS
10.3.9 system). This is another instance of "Tiger can't save to sever", by
the look of it. Which is the main reason I have not yet upgraded to Tiger
:-)

The document has several features that "should" produce errors, or are
"likely" to produce errors. But on this system, no errors.

So Quentin, I think your problem is more likely to be cruft collected in
your temporary storage. Try rebooting OS X to see if that clears it.

Your document has unresolved tracked changes used in conjunction with
numbering. This is the kiss of death: resolve all the changes.

The document also contains tables with borders and text outside the document
margins. This is also a well-known source of document corruption: reset the
document margins so that everything is inside them :-)

Cheers


On 29/1/06 8:49 AM, in article 280120062149147925%nospam@xxxxxxxxx, "Elliott
Roper" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <C00161E7.2BB%junk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Quentin
> <junk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 26/1/06 22:03, in article
>> 0001HW.BFFEF7CF00405284F0284550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Steve Hodgson"
>> <hamrun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Is it the infamous bug described at
>>> http://blogs.msdn.com/rick_schaut/archive/2004/05/19/135315.aspx? It's a
>>> long
>>> read but worth a look.
>>>
>>
>> Nope, I think this is a different problem. With my experience of the problem
>> it is as straight forward and hard as this: I open the file, and try to save
>> the file immediately with no edits and get disk full.
>>
>> As a work around, I can open, edit and save this file in NeoOffice and this
>> had enabled me to complete the form inside it.
>>
>> If you are interested in looking at the file you can find download the
>> application pack on this page http://tinyurl.com/c4cp6 . It is the
>> application form that gives the disk full on Mac Word.
>
> Yep, I opened the form in the VMS version of Word.
> When I went to save it, it gave a different error:
> SYS%F%MANAGEMENT DOUBLETHINK POLITICALLY CORRECT CLICHE LIMIT EXCEEDED
>
> Seriously. I can reproduce the behaviour you report.
>
> Even after saving it as HTML and then trying to save the re-opened
> result, Word still barfs with the disk full malarkey.
> I can't select or edit the boilerplate text. I suspect that it is
> exercising a misfeature related to locking all that.
>
> PS that Rick Shout blog is an unintentional damning indictment of the
> state of Office Software. How can you go for ten years without looking
> at system file limits exceeded? A simple lsof would have shown 'em
> that!
> On the other hand, this current exploit shows they have not nailed it
> yet.
>
> PPS Whichever way you look at it, East Sussex County Council needs that
> job filled soonest!

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John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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