Re: Problems saving to offline folder

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From: Echo S (echos_at_indyughspam.net)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 07:33:28 -0500

I was hoping someone else would have tackled this so I wouldn't have to show
my stupidity, but since they haven't, here goes...

I don't quite understand what you mean here by "offline folder." Are you
trying to save the file to a folder on a network when you're not connected
to the network?

You said that your file hangs when you try to save to an offline folder when
you're disconnected from the network.

But you also said you can load a presentation from an offline folder (does
that mean you're connected to the network and you open a presentation from
the network, or are you somehow opening a file from a network folder when
you're not connected to the network?) but that you can only save it to your
local harddrive (is that when you're disconnected from the network?) -- that
the file hangs if you try to save it to the offline folder where it came
from (are you disconnected then?).

I guess what we need here is step-by-step info on what you're opening, when
you're connected/disconnected, and when you're saving
(connected/disconnected).

If I'm not totally off in my assumption that you're doing this --
Connect to network
Open PPT file from network folder
Disconnect from network
Save PPT file

At this point, PPT file hangs if you try to "save" (which tries to save to
the original network folder) or "save as" to the network folder. PPT file
saves if you "save as" to your harddrive.

-- then the problem is that the network folder you're trying to save to
isn't available because you're disconnected from the network. So you have to
save to your harddrive and then move the file to the network the next time
you're connected. That's pretty much the way networks work. 

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
"JuanR" <JuanR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:630DCFAC-C07B-4589-8877-0B414C18FAC2@microsoft.com...
> I've been experiencing the following problem:  When I try to save a
> presentation to an offline folder, PowerPoint starts to save the file and
> then it hangs forever.  The file it creates is usually ~5kb in size.  I
can
> not terminate the process and usually what I have to do is to turn off the
> computer.  This only occurs saving to an offline folder when the laptop is
> disconnected from the network.  I can successfully save a presentation
loaded
> from an offline folder to a local one (to 'My Documents' for example), but
> the moment I try to save to the same offline folder the file came from, it
> hangs.  This problem does not occur whenever I'm working online.  I have
> tried both PowerPoint2000 and 2002 with the same results.  Has anybody
else
> experienced this?

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