I've trying to attach a 27MB document to an e-mail but a box is
displayed saying: "Microsoft is waiting for another application to
complete an OLE action" with 3 buttons: "Switch To...", "Retry" and
"Cancel".

When I click on "Switch To...", the Windows Task Manager comes up. On
the "Processes" page, explorer.exe is highlighted. The image names
listed with the highest Mem Usage are:

explorer.exe 12,832K
WINWORD.EXE 22,036K
OUTLOOK.EXE 20,484K

None of the "Mem Usage" number are changing.

When I click1 on the "Applications" tab, the Tasks listed are
"Untitled Message" (Running) and "INBOX - Mircosoft Outlook: (Not
Responding").

What application is preventing me from attaching the file to my e-
mail? How can I force the application to free up the file?

In article <aa8ebb05-20cf-4e98-9edf-
(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
says...
> I've trying to attach a 27MB document to an e-mail but a box is
> displayed saying: "Microsoft is waiting for another application to
> complete an OLE action" with 3 buttons: "Switch To...", "Retry" and
> "Cancel".

Please! - find another way of getting your file to the person. Email
was never really designed as a file transfer system - and for large
files, it most certainly isn't.

If it's corp email (you run on Exchange Server) it'll bounce unless the
default settings have been altered anyway. And even if you were to
manage to send it, the receiving server may well bounce it back to you!

>
> When I click on "Switch To...", the Windows Task Manager comes up. On
> the "Processes" page, explorer.exe is highlighted. The image names
> listed with the highest Mem Usage are:
>
> explorer.exe 12,832K
> WINWORD.EXE 22,036K
> OUTLOOK.EXE 20,484K
>
> None of the "Mem Usage" number are changing.
>
> When I click1 on the "Applications" tab, the Tasks listed are
> "Untitled Message" (Running) and "INBOX - Mircosoft Outlook: (Not
> Responding").
>
> What application is preventing me from attaching the file to my e-
> mail? How can I force the application to free up the file?

Nothing's stopping it - it is busy encoding your large file.

Believe me, it's *waaay* too large to email - don't do it - find another
way. Checked out Office Live? - FTP?.

--
Duncan

Try http://www.wikisend.com

You can upload your file and send a link to the file...

"Duncan McC" wrote:

> In article <aa8ebb05-20cf-4e98-9edf-
> (E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
> says...
> > I've trying to attach a 27MB document to an e-mail but a box is
> > displayed saying: "Microsoft is waiting for another application to
> > complete an OLE action" with 3 buttons: "Switch To...", "Retry" and
> > "Cancel".
>
> Please! - find another way of getting your file to the person. Email
> was never really designed as a file transfer system - and for large
> files, it most certainly isn't.
>
> If it's corp email (you run on Exchange Server) it'll bounce unless the
> default settings have been altered anyway. And even if you were to
> manage to send it, the receiving server may well bounce it back to you!
>
> >
> > When I click on "Switch To...", the Windows Task Manager comes up. On
> > the "Processes" page, explorer.exe is highlighted. The image names
> > listed with the highest Mem Usage are:
> >
> > explorer.exe 12,832K
> > WINWORD.EXE 22,036K
> > OUTLOOK.EXE 20,484K
> >
> > None of the "Mem Usage" number are changing.
> >
> > When I click1 on the "Applications" tab, the Tasks listed are
> > "Untitled Message" (Running) and "INBOX - Mircosoft Outlook: (Not
> > Responding").
> >
> > What application is preventing me from attaching the file to my e-
> > mail? How can I force the application to free up the file?
>
> Nothing's stopping it - it is busy encoding your large file.
>
> Believe me, it's *waaay* too large to email - don't do it - find another
> way. Checked out Office Live? - FTP?.
>
> --
> Duncan
>