Forced to create multiple version of the same docx

[Jcmichener]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

I create a new document and am merrily typing along, saving as I go and after a couple of saves I get the message that tells me, nope your document is READ ONLY and you do a save as.

I have searched the help files on my program, searched this forum and even gone to the other site but have not found a solution to this problem.

What do I need to do so I don't have multiple copies of the same document?

 

[John McGhie]

You need to tell us a lot more information

You've left out your Word software update version: that's critical to this
discussion. So is the location that you are saving to, and the operating
system controlling that.

I suspect this is the "Word network saving bug" or the "Bad disk
permissions" bug, but I need more info.

Cheers

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

I create a new document and am merrily typing along, saving as I go and after
a couple of saves I get the message that tells me, nope your document is READ
ONLY and you do a save as.

I have searched the help files on my program, searched this forum and even
gone to the other site but have not found a solution to this problem.

What do I need to do so I don't have multiple copies of the same document?

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Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:[email protected]

 

[Guest]

It is Microsoft Word 2008 for the Mac, 12.1.2. It's running on a Mac Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 with Mac OS X, version 10.4.11. I am just trying to save it to my desktop.
Julie

You need to tell us a lot more information

You've left out your Word software update version: that's critical to
this discussion. So is the location that you are saving to, and the operating
system controlling that.





I suspect this is the "Word network saving bug" or the "Bad disk permissions"
bug, but I need more info.





Cheers

Version: 2008 > Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) > Processor:

Power PC > > I create a new document and am merrily typing along, saving
as I go and after > a couple of saves I get the message that tells me,
nope your document is READ > ONLY and you do a save as. > > I have searched
the help files on my program, searched this forum and even > gone to the
other site but have not found a solution to this problem. > > What do
I need to do so I don't have multiple copies of the same document?





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mailto:[email protected]

 

[John McGhie]

The only time I have seen this one in OS 10.4.11 is when the machine was
using a network "Home" directory, and the user did not have write permission
to the Temp file in the root of the Home.

Could that be you?

If you enable Word>Preferences>Save> "Always make backup" does anything
change?

Which antivirus are you running? Some early versions of Symantec would do
this...

Hope this helps

It is Microsoft Word 2008 for the Mac, 12.1.2. It's running on a Mac Dual 2
GHz PowerPC G5 with Mac OS X, version 10.4.11. I am just trying to save it to
my desktop.
Julie

You need to tell us a lot more information

You've left out your Word software update version: that's critical to
this discussion. So is the location that you are saving to, and the
operating
system controlling that.





I suspect this is the "Word network saving bug" or the "Bad disk
permissions"
bug, but I need more info.





Cheers







Power PC > > I create a new document and am merrily typing along, saving
as I go and after > a couple of saves I get the message that tells me,
nope your document is READ > ONLY and you do a save as. > > I have
searched
the help files on my program, searched this forum and even > gone to the
other site but have not found a solution to this problem. > > What do
I need to do so I don't have multiple copies of the same document?





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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia.
mailto:[email protected]

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[Guest]

It really doesn't make any difference. I was actually saving documents to my hard drive and because of backup issues moved all my documents to a secure network today. I have all rights on documents in both my area on the network and in the folder where everything is saved.

Activating auto save just creates another copy of the document - something I am trying to avoid.

BUT, another document that I opened and made a minor change to suffered a fatal error while saving and the document now looks like gibberish. This was not a document I generated myself - came from an outside user so I suppose that could be it.

We run McAfee VirusScan.

 

[John McGhie]

Activating "Always make backup" (not AutoSave...) is likely to be an
available work-around.

I suspect that the issue is that when you come to save the file, it has not
been released after the last write. So you get the error.

If you activate "Always make backup..." then the previous version of the
file no longer exists, so it MUST be released

Cheers

It really doesn't make any difference. I was actually saving documents to my
hard drive and because of backup issues moved all my documents to a secure
network today. I have all rights on documents in both my area on the network
and in the folder where everything is saved.

Activating auto save just creates another copy of the document - something I
am trying to avoid.

BUT, another document that I opened and made a minor change to suffered a
fatal error while saving and the document now looks like gibberish. This was
not a document I generated myself - came from an outside user so I suppose
that could be it.

We run McAfee VirusScan.

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Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:[email protected]