Re: Word looks for another server on the network
- From: Elliott Roper <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:50:21 +0000
In article <1165631003.614302.48260@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<rwargo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've experienced a similar problem which was the result of an alias to
an offline folder; specifically, it was the Pictures folder that I had
aliased to a network folder. Removing the alias or renaming the
Pictures alias removed the AFP Connection Status dialog. I've blogged
about this problem and solution on my blog (http://www.rickwargo.com).
The entry is at:
http://www.rickwargo.com/2006/12/08/afp-connection-status-and-various-os-x-app
lications-locking-up/
Yes!! That's what happened to me too. Alias problems.
Its something that goes back to OS9. I had a fax application in that
state for ages till I found the file that was really an alias. It was
on a recently used list or something else innocuous.
It might be worth Henry's time to potter about in the Finder looking
for little curvy arrows on the icons of files that Word might be
interested in.
Henry, I agree with your assertion that it shouldn't happen, but it is
probably out of Microsoft's hands to a large degree. When Word asks OS
X to do something with a file, it has to wait politely till it is done.
Remember OS X is a flavour of BSD unix, where I/O operations are
depressingly uniformly synchronous [1]. If you ask for something, your
thread is dead till it happens. Of course Word's designers could have
developed a complex multithreaded jacket around file operations, and
added their own timeouts, but honestly, it would have been a nightmare
that would break on every second OS revision. There are many things on
my wish list for Word, but *that* is not one of them.
The alias could be simply to a file of your own that is in some
recently used list or list of templates or even a font. I wouldn't get
too hung up on ~/Pictures or ~/Library just yet.
There is one thing that might be in Word's backyard. That is the
looping behaviour you see. It would be very useful if you could make a
simple demonstration of this that others could replicate. The MVPs
among us will send it on to the developers to examine. (Or you could
use the send feedback menu item)
1. I'm being unkind to unix possibly. Even my beloved VMS, with all its
lovely QIOs and ASTs, is pretty synchronous across a file lookup.
Finding a file is actually quite an intricate operation, involving lots
of separate I/O operations, and often a delicate dance with locks and
mutexes, which in turn bring on timers with retries and lots of process
switching inside the OS. Aliases make it far worse, not least when the
physical file, or another in the chain of aliases is on a different
volume.
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