Office 2004 and the spinning beachball when saving, opening or attaching docs, xls, emails, etc? An

[bocoop29]

I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing hang-ups while trying to
save, open, attach a file. This seems to happen when we are on our OS
X.2 server. However, today it happened while someone was trying to
attach a desktop file in Entourage.

The normal experience is that you click on the triangle so you can see
all your different file options and somewhere in navigating the files
you get the colored beach ball that does not stop or after a while you
get a notice that the office program has crashed and would you like to
report your problem to apple or reopen your file. If you reopen the
same thing happens again.

I am not sure if I am explaining this well, so please ask me any
questions. We have a Dell Server that will replace our other server,
but as today we had an issue with files and the desktop, I am not sure
whether this is an older server problem or not.

Anyone else know what I am talking about? I would love to be told this
is a server issue, but I need to figure out what is going on as it
seems people are experiencing this more frequently. We have 3 Intel
iMacs as well as G4's with the newest OS X on them.

 

[adirondacks]

I am having the same problem with all my microsoft office products, including
outlook. It appears that others are having the same issue. What's up
Microsoft???

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

There is a known issue with File Open/Save dialogs taking forever to show,
or never, if you have an iDisk mounted. I believe that a recent update may
have helped, but the fix there is simply to unmount the iDisk, I think.
Adirondacks, that may be your problem.

Bocoop29, no idea--it sounds similar and so it is probably some sort of
problem connected to trying to show the network, but I haven't seen this
reported as a server issue.