Re: "Save As" dialog taking a long time to display

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Mark O'Brien wrote:
> Most recently, in trying to save a Word document using the "Save as.."
> dialog, it took several minutes to display the dialog box. All the while,
> the SPOD was spinning away in Word. I could use other apps, even other
> Office apps (Entourage, Excel), but not Word.
>
> Is this a known problem (hopefully with a known solution)???
>
> Mark
>
> Office 2004 11.2, OS X 10.4.3
>
> P.S. I just noticed it's a problem with the "File, Open" dialog as well, in
> Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. But once I've used either one of the dialogs,
> there's no delay using either one of them afterwards during that session.

Go to your .Mac prefs and the iDisk tab. If iDisk syncing is on turn it
off. Then try the save as etc. Many people find that iDisk syncing
slows this sort of thing down. I Expect the apps are checking out all
the places they could save to before displaying the dialogue.

Cheers

.

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