Powerpoint, Missing Graphics, Servers, and OS X 10.4.9

[John Gibson]

Hi all,

I am having some issues with Powerpoint. One of my users has just had
two presentations go wacky in the last week with many of the graphics
turning into Big Red X.

He was running the presentations off our servers so I don't know if
that is a factor. I haven't had this issue so I am wondering if it
may have something to do with the fact that user just upgraded to
10.4.9, or not...

I am just trying to figure out why this has started happening all of a
sudden.

Thanks for your thoughts.

John Gibson

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi all,

I am having some issues with Powerpoint. One of my users has just had
two presentations go wacky in the last week with many of the graphics
turning into Big Red X.

He was running the presentations off our servers so I don't know if
that is a factor. I haven't had this issue so I am wondering if it
may have something to do with the fact that user just upgraded to
10.4.9, or not...

Try running the presentations locally. We don't see as many problems we can
pin on networks as we used to, but it's easy enough to test with the network
out of the equation; seems a shame not to try it.

Error: "Memory was too full to draw everything..." or Red X in PowerPoint
98/2001 Mac
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00424.htm

RED X instead of graphics
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00064.htm

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[John Gibson]

Try running the presentations locally. We don't see as many problems we can
pin on networks as we used to, but it's easy enough to test with the network
out of the equation; seems a shame not to try it.

Error: "Memory was too full to draw everything..." or Red X in PowerPoint
98/2001 Machttp://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00424.htm

RED X instead of graphicshttp://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00064.htm

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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:::sigh::: no luck on the local front...

However going through the deck made me wonder if it had been corrupt
before they came to me. As I was going through the slides I found one
with 1/2 of it in this weird green pattern that I don't think could be
reproduced in powerpoint if you actually were trying to get that
effect.

To make matters worse it seems that no on kept a local copy of the
presentation. I dropped back to the backups but as far as two weeks
back it was bad, and at this point going back any farther would
pointless. We do have a similar deck that can be used to rebuild this
so it isn't a major loss.

Thanks for the help.

I had already checked out the FAQ and tried loading the thing into
Open office and Neo office but both of them showed the presentation as
hosed.

John

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

:::sigh::: no luck on the local front...

However going through the deck made me wonder if it had been corrupt
before they came to me. As I was going through the slides I found one
with 1/2 of it in this weird green pattern that I don't think could be
reproduced in powerpoint if you actually were trying to get that
effect.

To make matters worse it seems that no on kept a local copy of the
presentation. I dropped back to the backups but as far as two weeks
back it was bad, and at this point going back any farther would
pointless. We do have a similar deck that can be used to rebuild this
so it isn't a major loss.

Thanks for the help.

I had already checked out the FAQ and tried loading the thing into
Open office and Neo office but both of them showed the presentation as
hosed.

Bummer.

Try "roundtripping to html" if possible ... that can also save some troubled
presentations.


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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