Memory with 10.3

[Steve]

I upgraded to OS 10.3 (panther) from OS 10.1. With the exception of
Entourage, the other programs in the OS X Office Suite won't start due
to a "lack of memory on the disk or start up folder." It takes several
minutes of the program trying to launch before the memory message
appears.

I have gone into OS Classic and increased the memory for each
program; reinstalled each program; reinstalled 9.2 and reinstalled the
Office X suite. No luck.

Has anyone else had this experience and figured out how to fix it?

Thanks.

Steve
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[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Hi Steve,

I upgraded to OS 10.3 (panther) from OS 10.1. With the exception of
Entourage, the other programs in the OS X Office Suite won't start due
to a "lack of memory on the disk or start up folder." It takes several
minutes of the program trying to launch before the memory message
appears.

This usually appears when the boot volume is saturated and doesn't allow
the system to create any "swap" file. I've seen it sometimes when an
another application I had had a bad memory leak (and I believe some
early versions of Office had some: you should definitively make sure
Office is up to date to 10.1.5 on your Mac).

Could this be the case on your Mac ??? How much free space do you have
on hte boot volume ?? Are you also short on RAM ??? This would force the
system to create a lot more of thee temporary swap files.

I have gone into OS Classic and increased the memory for each
program; reinstalled each program; reinstalled 9.2 and reinstalled the
Office X suite. No luck.

This doesn't help. Memory management under MacO SX is quite differnet
from Classic/MacOS 9. The system dynamically allocates memory to the
applications on a need to basis. You can't set up how much RAM the apps
use.


Corentin

 

[Scott O'Hara]

I have the same problem as Steve.
I am running panther on a brand new Ti Book; and word worked fine
until I ran the office 10.1.5 update. Now it says it has insufficient disk
space or memory.

I have nearly 55 gig available on the boot volume, and 512 mbRam.

The only other problem I have is trying to boot from a DISKWARRIOR cd
I am getting a Kernal Panic message!

Any suggestions?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Hi Scott,

I have the same problem as Steve.
I am running panther on a brand new Ti Book; and word worked fine
until I ran the office 10.1.5 update. Now it says it has insufficient disk
space or memory.

That might be a known bug. Do you et a "disk is full" error message?? If
yes, check this out:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/DiskFullError.htm

I have nearly 55 gig available on the boot volume, and 512 mbRam.

The only other problem I have is trying to boot from a DISKWARRIOR cd
I am getting a Kernal Panic message!

The CD might not be adapte for you TiBook. You might have to order a
replacement CD from Alsoft - and you'll have a bootable CD with the
updated version of DiskWarrior: 3.0.1.


Corentin

 

[Guest]

Thanks Corentin

I'm not actually getting that message. Trying to Start up Word I get
"Not enough Memory of Disk space to run Word"

so its not the bug you mention - I have nothing else open on my
computer from startup and I still ge tthe problem.

Will try the diskwarrior update suggestion, and I'm also going to
uninstall windows and see if a clean install will help.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Thanks Corentin

I'm not actually getting that message. Trying to Start up Word I get
"Not enough Memory of Disk space to run Word"

so its not the bug you mention - I have nothing else open on my
computer from startup and I still ge tthe problem.

Will try the diskwarrior update suggestion, and I'm also going to
uninstall windows and see if a clean install will help.

You can always try the usual maintenance operations on MacOS X since it
seems to be a problem with the system itself:

check for disk issues
repair permissions using Disk Utility


Corentin