Autorecover out of space, also FAQ?

[Dave]

re Word 2004
I'm getting an autorecovery error "out of space" although I've got 97G
free. I've seen this posted before - is there a FAQ for this group?
Thanks!
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[CyberTaz]

Hi Dave -

You have seen the issue here before, but more commonly with Word X. The 2004
version supposedly fixed what was broken in Word, but there still seems to
be a problem in OS X. Is your Office software fully updated? Which version
of OS X?

Here's the link which provides additional troubleshooting assistance;

http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html

You might also have a look at this;

> Nope:
>
> That should be "Typical Apple" :-)
>
> It's an Apple bug that they won't fix because they have discovered that it
> mainly makes Microsoft look bad :-)
>
> Word uses an advanced form of the File Locking command, and in OS X it's not
> working right since OS 10.2.
>
> I am pretty sure that Microsoft is no longer interested in this bug (I've
> been wrong before: go on, someone surprise me!). But this bug is not in
> Microsoft's code, so they *can't* do anything about it.
>
> The Microsoft team is flat out on the next version of Office. You want this
> one fixed, complain to Apple.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> On 16/4/06 5:34 AM, in article
> 1145129667.6...@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "Rick"
> <ri...@rickscalzo.net> wrote:
>
>> I am having the same problem. Typical Microsoft, ignoring a bug that I
>> have seen since version X on my iBook.
>> I have 2004 on a MacBook Pro with 2gigs of ram and 100 gig HD. With 55
>> gig free, there is more than enough space.
>>
>> I guess we will have to wait until office 2010 before Microsponge ships
>> a truely tested and well performing version of office.
>>
>> Microsoft, where is the fix?
>>
>> Tom Griffin wrote:
>>> I have a similar problem to CGF on April 11 ("Disk full can't write to
>>> this drive ")
>>>
>>> In my case, I was editing a document I created and into which I have
>>> pasted some pictures from Acrobat files. I had saved the file many
>>> times during creation and editing. I had saved it the night before and
>>> left it open overnight. Not knowing for sure that I had saved it, I
>>> tried saving it again. This time I got the error message. It instructed
>>> me to free up some space, save to another disk, etc.
>>>
>>> The hard drive I was saving to had 77GB free. I tried saving it to
>>> different locations than the original folder (such as desktop, etc.)
>>> and to an external HD. I also tried saving it to a compact flash
>>> through a reader connected to USB port.
>>>
>>> I am using PowerBook G4 with 2 GB ram and 120GB hard drive.
>>
>
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> John McGhie <jo...@mcghie.name>
> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
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>

Good Luck |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

On 5/6/06 1:28 PM, in article 060520061328198782%da...@nospam.net, "Dave"

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Dave:

"Autorecovery out of space" means "I can't write to the autorecovery file
for this document".

That could be because you are out of space in your OS /temp folder (a hidden
folder...) because you have not rebooted OS X in months.

But it's more likely a missing updates or bad file permissions issue. It
can also be that the document is corrupted and Word can't write it anywhere.
If you were really out of space, the error would occur on *every* document.

Cheers

On 7/5/06 3:28 AM, in article 060520061328198782%da...@nospam.net, "Dave"
<da...@nospam.net> wrote:

> re Word 2004
> I'm getting an autorecovery error "out of space" although I've got 97G
> free. I've seen this posted before - is there a FAQ for this group?
> Thanks!

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[Dave]

Office is fully updated and I'm using Tiger fully updated. As far as
the document being corrupted, that's possible because it's an ongoing
document often kept open. How should I fix that?

In article <C082A94E.113C8%onlygen...@com.cast.net>, CyberTaz
<onlygen...@com.cast.net> wrote:

[Beth Rosengard]

Did you check the link that CyberTaz pointed you to? There's an article
there about uncorrupting documents.

Beth

On 5/7/06 10:20 AM, in article 070520061320466620%da...@nospam.net, "Dave"

[Dave]

Done. I've got that page well bookmarked now for a reference. Thanks.

In article <C08389ED.2DCD7%bethro...@earthlink.net>, Beth Rosengard
<bethro...@earthlink.net> wrote: