Office 2000 will no longer open large directory

[Alan Mann]

I have a client using MS Office 2000 (SR-1) on computers
attached to a Windows 2000 file server. The default "home"
data directory that Word accesses on that server contains
almost 46,000 Word document & Excel spreadsheet files.

All of a sudden, Word, Excel & Outlook will no longer
accsss this dirctory. They just start to read it and the
program freezes. Other apps (such as old Word Perfect 8)
as well as some legacy computers running Office 97 have no
problem with this. They can open and read the entire
directory. The problem is limited to computers running
Windows 2000 (SP-4) and Office 2000 (SR-1).

I haven't been able to find anything on this in the MS
Knowledge Base, though I'm still searching. Is there some
sort of limitation in the number of files that Office 2000
(SR-1) can read?

Thanks!

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACT]

Don't know, but I would suggest as a start that you separate the documents
from the spreadsheets.

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