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willytk
Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC
The one issue I really, really hoped was fixed in Office 2008 was the infamous afp (Appleshare) network save problem. If you save or open a saved document from a network share that's used by several users, it will eventually give you an error message "Network connection lost" or something of that nature when you try to save.
This is well described here:
<http://www.makemacwork.com/office-2004-wont-save-to-server.htm>
I have applied this fix with a few of our users, changing the uid of the local user account on the Mac, but I think it's way too much work to get around this issue.
Can someone from the Mac BU at Microsoft please answer the following questions:
1) How does Office/Word 2008 handle network saves today? Does it still use the ".TemporaryItems/folders.UID of the root of the network share" scheme?
2) If the answer to 1) is yes : Why, for the love of all that is holy in the Universe, can't the Office 2008 products use at least use a seeded random number, instead of the Macs user id number? This would solve it all!
All other applications manage to deal with network saves without a similar error. And I know it's best to save locally, but that doesn't work when you have thousands of documents for hundreds of clients. You can't keep saving to your own Mac and then copy it to the server every time. Sooner or later you're bound to overwrite something someone else has written.
We spent thousands of dollars on 2008 upgrades to our 30 or so Macs, but this problem makes me so annoyed that the default doc type in the business world is .doc, .xls and .ppt.
Please, help!
Regards,
Willy T. Koch
Norway
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC
The one issue I really, really hoped was fixed in Office 2008 was the infamous afp (Appleshare) network save problem. If you save or open a saved document from a network share that's used by several users, it will eventually give you an error message "Network connection lost" or something of that nature when you try to save.
This is well described here:
<http://www.makemacwork.com/office-2004-wont-save-to-server.htm>
I have applied this fix with a few of our users, changing the uid of the local user account on the Mac, but I think it's way too much work to get around this issue.
Can someone from the Mac BU at Microsoft please answer the following questions:
1) How does Office/Word 2008 handle network saves today? Does it still use the ".TemporaryItems/folders.UID of the root of the network share" scheme?
2) If the answer to 1) is yes : Why, for the love of all that is holy in the Universe, can't the Office 2008 products use at least use a seeded random number, instead of the Macs user id number? This would solve it all!
All other applications manage to deal with network saves without a similar error. And I know it's best to save locally, but that doesn't work when you have thousands of documents for hundreds of clients. You can't keep saving to your own Mac and then copy it to the server every time. Sooner or later you're bound to overwrite something someone else has written.
We spent thousands of dollars on 2008 upgrades to our 30 or so Macs, but this problem makes me so annoyed that the default doc type in the business world is .doc, .xls and .ppt.
Please, help!
Regards,
Willy T. Koch
Norway