POWERPOINT STINKS

[Oscar Recio Cantù]

I HAVE TO WRITE DOWN MY ANGER. AFTER 6 HOURS MAKING A PRESENTATION IN
POWERPOINT, SUDDENLY (NOT ANY KEY WAS PRESSED) IT DISSAPEARED FROM MY MAC.
NOT ANY SIGN OF IT.
USING FINDER SEARCH,THERE IS NO FILE, HAS NOT BEEN IN MY MACHINE EVER. I ASK
FOR IT IN RECENT DOCUMENTS IN POWERPOINT, NONE.

WHERE THE HELL IS MY FILE????

IS THAT A PROFFESSIONAL PRODUCT???

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I HAVE TO WRITE DOWN MY ANGER. AFTER 6 HOURS MAKING A PRESENTATION IN
POWERPOINT, SUDDENLY (NOT ANY KEY WAS PRESSED) IT DISSAPEARED FROM MY MAC.
NOT ANY SIGN OF IT.
USING FINDER SEARCH,THERE IS NO FILE, HAS NOT BEEN IN MY MACHINE EVER. I ASK
FOR IT IN RECENT DOCUMENTS IN POWERPOINT, NONE.

WHERE THE HELL IS MY FILE????

IS THAT A PROFFESSIONAL PRODUCT???

This never happened to me. Have you check the hard drive for directory
damages ?? That would make files disappear. You check repair permissions
at the same time, it doesn't hurt :-(

Corentin

 

[pgn]

This is also happening to me!

Please see
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...24d9f73d8ed/59d6cce04e229fe2#59d6cce04e229fe2

I have also seen several entries referring to this problem.

Does anyone have a solution?

 

[solun]

First try to repair Permission using Disk Utility (or better use
"Cocktail", and at the same time clean all cashes, temp files,
re-prebind system...).

Next, re-build your directory with Disk Warrior (3.02).

If that doesn't fix everything. Back-up your data, de-install Office
(using the De-installer) and re-install everything. Run Cocktail again
afterwards.

good luck.

denis

 

[Denis]

I HAVE TO WRITE DOWN MY ANGER. AFTER 6 HOURS MAKING A PRESENTATION IN
POWERPOINT, SUDDENLY (NOT ANY KEY WAS PRESSED) IT DISSAPEARED FROM MY MAC.
NOT ANY SIGN OF IT.
USING FINDER SEARCH,THERE IS NO FILE, HAS NOT BEEN IN MY MACHINE EVER. I ASK
FOR IT IN RECENT DOCUMENTS IN POWERPOINT, NONE.

WHERE THE HELL IS MY FILE????

IS THAT A PROFFESSIONAL PRODUCT???

I completely agree with you: POWERPOINT STINKS. exactly the same
catastrophy happened to me. Just when everything was finished and I
pushed the save button, powerpoint, my file and all security saved
files if any ever existed disappeared!!! Unbelievable! No sign of file
anywhere...
I am afraid there is no way to get it back or is there?

 

[Benjamin Amsaleg]

Guys,

This problem happened also to me. I remember some things I did before and I
would like to know if you did the some of the same things too :
- I copy pasted slides from other presentations (PC origin) with the
"preserve slide design" option enable. I used first the slide sorter to
select and copy my slides
- I got some error message at one point trying to copy past slide from the
slide sorter (complaining about OLE server not being installed) I dismissed
the error and use the "insert slide from presentation" menu instead of copy
paste from slide sorter view
- I edited OLE Excel and word tables
- I did a save as from an original presentation from witch I could reuse
many slides. I did not start from a blank presentation

Maybe we could find a trend that could help the MacBU fix this issue

Also, this crash happened before I updated to 11.1.1. Are you under 11.0,
11.1 or 11.1.1 during this crash ?

Thanks

BAM

 

[Denis]

It happened to me both before and after upgrading to 11.1.1.
I really see that as a very worrying problem and wonder what Microsoft
has for liability for destroying files on a computer... I dare not use
POWERPOINT anylonger as it is not enough to save my files regularly to
protect my work. I lost a hell of a long time with this. the problem
olways occurred when I try to save my work. But I got other minor
strange signals (Powerpoint not finding help file sometimes, memory
full...). It does not sound like a reliable software to me...

I would really like to here something from the microsoft people and
here they are going to solve this dreadful problem.

Denis

 

[Benjamin Amsaleg]

Denis,

One last question as it looks like your patern is completly different than
the one I had noticed.

Did you boot from another partition and look your hard drive status with
Disk Utility lately? I actually found some errors that made me reformat.
Since then, no problem...

Maybe PPT's temp file usage make it more prone to Hard Disk directory
structure problem???

BAM

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Denis,

As I mentioned earlier in this thread, it is entirely possible that the
problem has nothing whatsoever to do with PowerPoint. Are you running
any "haxies" (programs that enhance the OSX environment)? Any anti-virus
programs (these are known to cause problems)? What steps can you take to
reproduce the problem? Have you run any disk utilities to check your
hard drive (DiskWarrior, DiskUtility, DriveGenius, TechTools)?

At this time there is almost nothing to go on to try to troubleshoot
what is happening. Without specific information the problem will not get
solved. Simply complaining that this is PowerPoint's fault does not make
it true nor does it help come up with a solution to the problem.

-Jim

 

[Denis]

of course i am complaining about powerpoint!!!! what would you do in
my place when a whole day's work desappears suddenly?????
I don't have any "haxy" running nor any antivirus. And whatever the
environment, powerpoint should not be able to erase a file. ok if it
crashes and you loose your last changes but there is a difference
there.
So how was it possible if powerpoint is so damned good?

Denis

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

of course i am complaining about powerpoint!!!! what would you do in
my place when a whole day's work desappears suddenly?????
I don't have any "haxy" running nor any antivirus. And whatever the
environment, powerpoint should not be able to erase a file. ok if it
crashes and you loose your last changes but there is a difference
there.

Of course it shouldn't do this. And for most people it doesn't. It'd be
good for everybody if MS could find out why it happens to some. Jim's
asked a few questions that might help with that.

Answering them might help solve the problem or narrow it down.

Complaining here about the problem vents some steam, and that's healthy,
but your audience here is other PPT users, not MS employees. Nobody here
can change PPT.

So how was it possible if powerpoint is so damned good?

Denis

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