Trying to save; disk full question

[Dudley Henriques]

Hello and a question please if I may?

I'm using Word 2000 on a large hard drive computer. Everything on the
machine is working fine. I've been working with Word on documents with no
problems all day, but the last document threw me a problem.
After working up a document starting with a blank page and inserting an
image from a file, some border work and a bit of text, when I went to "save
as" in my documents folder, XP threw me a "trying to save to C, disk full,
try another drive" window.
I know the drive has plenty of room. I ended up losing the page after
printing it out. XP absolutely would not let me save it.
Can someone please bring me up to speed on what's causing this and possibly
how I can avoid it in the future?
Many thanks
Dudley

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Does the document save if you delete the image, or if you delete
the borders?

 

[Anne Troy]

Dudley: Couple of things. A corrupt graphic could cause this, but since we
don't know, and you want to be sure, I'd do a couple of things:

1. Clean up your hard drive. Temp files can make your PC report low disk
space.
http://www.officearticles.com/misc/how_to_clean_up_your_hard_drive.htm

2. Troubleshoot Word. If you haven't customized it or anything, this is
pretty painless (probably just rename normal.dot):
http://www.officearticles.com/word/steps_to_troubleshooting_microsoft_word.htm

Next time this occurs, you can try copying and pasting the content into
WordPad, saving it, and then quitting Word...
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Anne Troy
VBA Project Manager
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Dudley Henriques]

Thank you Anne;
I'm not really a whiz with the program but I think I understand what you
mean about rebuilding normal.dot. I'll rename it and let Word rebuild on the
reboot.
I noticed after I posted that the temp and TIF folders were indeed pretty
full. I cleaned up and tried doing the page again. It worked!
Thanks for the advice.
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship

 

[Dudley Henriques]

Thank you for answering.
I lost the document when I closed Word, but after emptying the TIF and Temp
folders I redid the document and it saved.
Thanks again
Dudley