Autorecover out of space, also FAQ?

[Dave]

re Word 2004
I'm getting an autorecovery error "out of space" although I've got 97G
free. I've seen this posted before - is there a FAQ for this group?
Thanks!

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Dave -

You have seen the issue here before, but more commonly with Word X. The 2004
version supposedly fixed what was broken in Word, but there still seems to
be a problem in OS X. Is your Office software fully updated? Which version
of OS X?

Here's the link which provides additional troubleshooting assistance;

http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html

You might also have a look at this;

Nope:

That should be "Typical Apple"

It's an Apple bug that they won't fix because they have discovered that it
mainly makes Microsoft look bad

Word uses an advanced form of the File Locking command, and in OS X it's not
working right since OS 10.2.

I am pretty sure that Microsoft is no longer interested in this bug (I've
been wrong before: go on, someone surprise me!). But this bug is not in
Microsoft's code, so they *can't* do anything about it.

The Microsoft team is flat out on the next version of Office. You want this
one fixed, complain to Apple.

Cheers




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Good Luck |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Dave:

"Autorecovery out of space" means "I can't write to the autorecovery file
for this document".

That could be because you are out of space in your OS /temp folder (a hidden
folder...) because you have not rebooted OS X in months.

But it's more likely a missing updates or bad file permissions issue. It
can also be that the document is corrupted and Word can't write it anywhere.
If you were really out of space, the error would occur on *every* document.

Cheers

re Word 2004
I'm getting an autorecovery error "out of space" although I've got 97G
free. I've seen this posted before - is there a FAQ for this group?
Thanks!

--

Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[Dave]

Office is fully updated and I'm using Tiger fully updated. As far as
the document being corrupted, that's possible because it's an ongoing
document often kept open. How should I fix that?

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Did you check the link that CyberTaz pointed you to? There's an article
there about uncorrupting documents.

Beth

 

[Dave]

Done. I've got that page well bookmarked now for a reference. Thanks.