Re: Can't save Word 2008 on Network Drive

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Not sure if this trend is still active, but we are having this issue too. I
have a few clients running Mac OS X 10.5.4 and office 12.1.1. They can NOT
open, edit and save .doc on the network. They can however open, edit and
save a .docx off the network. Any ideas?

"John McGhie" wrote:

Without your software version information, this comment doesn't really have
much meaning.

If you are using Office 2008 on OS 10.5.1, they are working on a fix that
should be with us shortly.

Cheers

On 26/04/08 2:56 PM, in article
33212D63-75E9-4978-8BBD-511BCBB9C853@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "CDR"
<CDR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The only thing I found that works, and this was by accident, is if I am
connected to the network drive using two different computers, but the same
user, the problem goes away.

Here, I save docs to a 750 Gb network drive connected to my Airport Extreme
router. If I try to open and then save change to a doc on the drive in Word,
I get the error. However, if I connect to the drive with both my desktop Mac
and my laptop, no problems.


"eatsurf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

Almost every time I save a document, or perform a "save as..." to make a new
copy, I get the error message:

"You cannot save while the file is in use by another process. Try saving the
file with a new name.
(Word Work File D_xxxxxxxxxx.tmp)"

I'm saving the files as ".docx" format. This similar behavior occured with
the Word 2004 versioned files. The files are saved to a shared network hard
drive, but file that are on my client (local) drive have the same results.

Anyone experience this behavior? Looking for a solution before I throw Word
out the window with the bath water!

Thanks


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