PowerPoint two save progress boxes

[James]

We are using Office 2007 SP1 with june patches.

When saving powerpoint files to a network drive we are noticing that there
are two save progress boxes - the normal green down the bottom and then a
windows 95 type version that pops up in the middle. Saves are taking ages
and sometimes crashes, an 8mb, 50 page document takes 5 minutes to save.

I have run the office diagnostics and found nothing. Saving the file
locally is quicker and the windows 95 progress box does not appear.

Any ideas?

 

[James]

Two, off top of head.

1) PPT2007 does display a progress dialog with a cancel button when saving from
2007 format back to the earlier 97-2003 format. It seems to do this when the
save takes longer than a certain amount of time.

Of course, it'll take longer to save a file across a network than to a local
drive, so it's more likely that the message will appear when saving to a
network.

I understand this, but cannot find anything to confirm it. If there was
documentation which states that saving to network produces a "save as"
diaglogue then that would explain a few things. We are also using pure 2007
only powerpoint files which are showing the same problem.

Does that sound like what you're seeing? If so, it's not a problem of itself,
but obviously, it's not supposed to crash. Does it only crash when saving to a
network drive?

Its the length of time taken to save a file and then the crashes that are
causing us the most grief. File that were taking 10 seconds to save are now
taking up to 5 minutes.
Most of the crashes are recoverable but staff are now saving files less
regularily and when they do there saving as a new version all the time. This
is the other strange thing - saving as a new file is quicker than an existing
file.

2) Do you have any kind of document management system installed? Sometimes
these can take over the save process.

No we don't. I would like to as having 40 copies of the same 30mb
powerpoint file is very annoying and slows my backups.