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About 2 weeks ago, my long-unchanged Word 2000 started to
hang when I tried to open a file in a nested subdirectory.
That subdirectory has about 120 sub-directories under it
(there is a valid reason for this). OPEN used to, as it
should, present me with a complete list of all the subs so
I could then select the subdir that has the file I want.
It started to hang after reaching, for simplicity's sake,
the V1 subdirectory. (It always hung at exactly the same
subdir in the scan.) I tried various things, like disabling
my virus checker (Norton), updating the virus software,
disabling/unloading all other active apps, etc. Almost
everything I tried would cause Word to work properly again
- maybe once or twice. But then it would start to fail
again - after scanning to the exact same directory.
So, I deleted the directory directly after the last
directory it properly scanned (i.e., I deleted the V2
directory - which then made it possible for Word to scan
the V3, V4, etc. directories until the end). This trick
worked for a couple of days.
Five minutes ago, it stopped working again, failing after
the U3 sub.....although during the past several hours I
have used the Open function in that branch at least a dozen
times with no problem and have made no changes to the system.
So, this time, I added a directory to the branch (call it
V5) - and it worked again - twice. Now it hangs, at a
different point in the branch but still near the end.
Back in the "bad" old DOS days, some apps had trouble if
there were too many dirs at the root, but it is hard to
believe that Word2000 would care how many subs there are -
and the fact that I could temporarily fix the problem by
adding a subdirectory suggests that the sheer number of
directories isn't the problem.
The branch looks something like this:
MainDir
Subdir
hang when I tried to open a file in a nested subdirectory.
That subdirectory has about 120 sub-directories under it
(there is a valid reason for this). OPEN used to, as it
should, present me with a complete list of all the subs so
I could then select the subdir that has the file I want.
It started to hang after reaching, for simplicity's sake,
the V1 subdirectory. (It always hung at exactly the same
subdir in the scan.) I tried various things, like disabling
my virus checker (Norton), updating the virus software,
disabling/unloading all other active apps, etc. Almost
everything I tried would cause Word to work properly again
- maybe once or twice. But then it would start to fail
again - after scanning to the exact same directory.
So, I deleted the directory directly after the last
directory it properly scanned (i.e., I deleted the V2
directory - which then made it possible for Word to scan
the V3, V4, etc. directories until the end). This trick
worked for a couple of days.
Five minutes ago, it stopped working again, failing after
the U3 sub.....although during the past several hours I
have used the Open function in that branch at least a dozen
times with no problem and have made no changes to the system.
So, this time, I added a directory to the branch (call it
V5) - and it worked again - twice. Now it hangs, at a
different point in the branch but still near the end.
Back in the "bad" old DOS days, some apps had trouble if
there were too many dirs at the root, but it is hard to
believe that Word2000 would care how many subs there are -
and the fact that I could temporarily fix the problem by
adding a subdirectory suggests that the sheer number of
directories isn't the problem.
The branch looks something like this:
MainDir
Subdir