I get a disk full message when saving large excel file.

[David]

Everyone else on the network can save it just fine but I get a disk full
message. I can only save it to my hard drive and then transfer it to the
network drive to be shared. I defraged and am going to do a disk cleanup and
add more ram. I hope that works?

 

[Dave Peterson]

When xl2003 and older saves the file, it saves it as a temporary file with a
funny name (8 characters--no extension) in the same folder.

If the save is successful, xl will delete the original (or rename it to its
backup name (like "backup of book1.xlk)) and if that's successful, xl will
rename the funny named file to the original's name.

So there could be a small moment of time where you need (approximately) twice
the size of the original file. If you don't have that available on the network
drive, then this could be the problem.

On the other hand, if you have tons of space available, I'd recommend that you
talk to your IT staff and explain the problem to them. Maybe it's some sort of
network problem -- even hardware????