Spinning Beach Ball during Save As in Word

[DougalKessler]

'Save As' in Word used to be instant. Now I get 30 seconds of spinning
beach ball.

I've tried a lot of things, including:

-- disk repair
-- permissions repair
-- zapping PRAM
-- anti-virus scan
-- uninstalling Quicksilver
-- putting iDisk Sync to Manual
-- adding 512Gb RAM (now 1Gb)
-- running MacJanitor
-- running Tiger Cache Cleaner

I'm getting desperate. No clue what to do next. Any suggestions
gratefully received. Thanks.

I'm running Word 2004 for Mac (v.11.2) on a G5 dual 1.8 Ghz, 1Gb RAM.
Tiger 10.4.4

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

You've tried the standard OS fixes--try the standard Word fixes now, listed
here.

http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/TroubleshootingIndex.htm
(hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser)

Work through them one by one until something helps. If nothing does, post
back. The most common culprit is a corrupted Normal template or damaged
Preferences file.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

'Save As' in Word used to be instant. Now I get 30 seconds of spinning
beach ball.

Do you have a .Mac account ?? Tiger has a nasty issue with iDisks being
mounted on the desktop. When it is, some apps (and especially Office
apps) have horrendously slow open and save dialogs with rather long
spinning beachballs.


Corentin