Office 2004 and disk access

[Alice Faber]

In order to evaluate Office 2004 for my lab, I installed it on a spare partition
on an external hard drive. Now I can't unmount that partition under any
circumstances (that I've discovered). I'm running OS 10.3.4 on a G3 iMacDV.
When I quite Word and then try to unmount the partition it resides on, I get
a message that files on the drive are in use and I should quit applications. I
get the same message if I quit *all* applications, including force quitting
and relaunching the Finder. I've checked with Activity Monitor and ended
any process with Microsoft in the name (I think it was just the Auto Updater
demon). I get the same message after logging out and logging back in and
after restarting the computer (but before actually doing anything; and I don't
have any apps on auto start); however, there are no problems unmounting
the drive as part of the shutdown half of the restart.

I've got a few other things to try, but I'd be grateful for any suggestions.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

In order to evaluate Office 2004 for my lab, I installed it on a spare
partition on an external hard drive. Now I can't unmount that partition
under any circumstances (that I've discovered).

I suspect you have the Office Daemon running... You can either quit it
using Entoruage (Select Turn off notifications under the ENtoruage menu)
or with the process manager (filter for "daemon" and click the STOP
button).


Corentin

 

[Alice Faber]

-----Original Message-----


I suspect you have the Office Daemon running... You can either quit it
using Entoruage (Select Turn off notifications under the ENtoruage menu)
or with the process manager (filter for "daemon" and click the STOP
button).

Yep...that was it. When I got home, I went through all Office applications
looking for any preference or menu entry that could conceivably cause
unsuspected processes to be active. I'm not sure how that got turned on
(default?) as I don't use Entourage for anything but printing blank calendars.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Yep...that was it. When I got home, I went through all Office applications
looking for any preference or menu entry that could conceivably cause
unsuspected processes to be active. I'm not sure how that got turned on
(default?) as I don't use Entourage for anything but printing blank calendars.

Then you can simply keep it turned off. This will allow you to easily
unmount the volume then.


Corentin