Help, documents won't save!

jay11_2

Hi guys, please help,

I'm in the middle of my dissertation, and suddenly get the error message 'the disc is full or too many files are open' when trying to save word documents.

I've checked disc space (85% free), deleted some old files from the folder I'm using, tried saving in different locations--including a memory stick. I've also run disc cleanup and defrag, but still recieve this error message.

Does anyone have any other ideas?

thanks, Jay

geewhiz

Are you running any Norton products ?

You should be able to at least save the word document as an RTF file by changing the file type while saving it just so you don't lose everything before trying to fix the conflicting file.

jay11_2

Thanks, I'll try that.

I'm running norton 360

tomstickland

I've had this problem with Word on numerous occasions. Probably happens once every two weeks at work. My solution is to open a new copy of word (completely new copy from program menu), then cut and paste the entire contents of the old unsaveable document into a new one and save it. I use "edit - select all" and then CTR-C to copy and CTRL-V to paste.

jay11_2

Thanks Tom, already tried that though, I get an error 'too many edits in the document' and it won't paste

jay11_2

Update--sorted, cut & pasted it into 2 seperate docs (each about half the main one) and it saved, can only surmise that there were too many different formats, tables, links etc for one document (it's my lit search draft).

Huge relief as I've been trying to sort it for hours.

Thanks for all the help, got me to look at it differently IYKWIM,

Jay