The path where you are trying to save this document is unavailable

[dan12380]

I recently converted a PDF file to a word document (rtf) with an online
software. This conversion was successful and the document looks fine. However
when I make any change to the document and try to save it I get the error:

"The network or path where you are trying to save this document is
unavailable. What do you want to do?"
Which prompts me with three buttons "Retry, Save As..., Cancel".

This is confusing to me since I am saving it on my Desktop. I have noticed,
if I take out the pages that contain some graphs and tables, it saves it
perfectly.

Can anyone help me out?

[dan12380]

I have resolved the issue by converting the file to a .doc file instead of a
.rtf file. I still don't understand why the error was occurring with the rtf
file.

[lady-i...@hotmail.com]

This issue might occur when you open a document with an older version of Microsoft Word. The version you have will convert the document, however once you make changes and try to save or overwrite the existing file it will give you that error message.

Solution: open document, select all, copy, close document, open new document, paste, save as type: Word document that corresponds to the version of Word that you have on your computer.

[douglas...@gmail.com]

[douglas...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 11:01:01 PM UTC+10, dan12380 wrote:

I tried every one of the suggested fixes that I have read on-line - nothing worked. I then accidentally switched off my laptop (on this machine the off-button is next to the delete-button). When I restarted the laptop and reopended Word, there were 2 previous (repaired) versions of the large Word document listed in the recovery pane. One was timed/dated as my most recent edit and I selected that one. It opened and was the last version (that I had been unable to save, after repeated attempts, due to the "network unavailable" message). I saved that version with a new name into the "Documents" top-level folder - not the original folder - and it was saved correctly. I have re-opened it and it is the correct last version. I have copied that document to its original folder from the "Documents" folder and opened the copied document, which is also the correct last version.

[Rositsa Panayotova]

If you need the .rtf file for cleaning by Trados but you cannot save it, this is because the size becomes huge. There is one quite rude solution: Find all characters with format 'hidden' and replace them with nothing in Find/Replace. You get a clean file but in the TM, you will not update any manual changes that were not made by Trados itself.