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MS Office Forum / Excel / New Users / July 2008When I attempt to save a workbook I get a disk is full error
I have a copy of Excel 2003 installed on a server. It is in a share were the 4 people on out team can access throuh a mapped drive. When any of us open the workbook make some changes and attempt to save it we get a messavebox that says the disk is full. This in not true. If we save the workbook to our desttop, make the edits save it and copy it back to the server they are saved for the next person to see without a problem. This adds a good deal of time to the changes over the month and we would like to know ifanyone can tell us why we cannot edit the file directly on the server. It contains a data source to a database that populates the workbook with some data, if that matters. Any ideas of why we have this behavior and what we could do so that we can simply open the file in place make the changes and then save it , would be greatly appreciated. Thanks >I have a copy of Excel 2003 installed on a server. It is in a share were the >4 people on out team can access throuh a mapped drive. When any of us open [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >simply open the file in place make the changes and then save it , would be >greatly appreciated. Are you really close to your disk limit (ie if you saved 2 files the same size as the one you are talking about, would you get the message on the second save but not the first ?). The first thing XL does when opening is create a temp file in the directory where the original is. (copy 1). When you try to save it, I think it creates a new version, then deletes the temp file. (copy 2). That it works fine on the desktops is an indicator. Suggest you have a dung out in the shared directory or ask for more disk space. :) Thanks Bruce, I am unclear as to where I look for this reference. Can you add some more detail as to where I can get to this article? Thanks > >I have a copy of Excel 2003 installed on a server. It is in a share were the > >4 people on out team can access throuh a mapped drive. When any of us open [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > Suggest you have a dung out in the shared directory or ask for more disk > space. :) >Thanks Bruce, I am unclear as to where I look for this reference. Can you >add some more detail as to where I can get to this article? Article ? Sorry, don't know what you mean. I do know I've had disk full errors (particularly on a network drive) when it wasn't and the temporary file was the problem. It's worse (obviously) for seriously large files. :) I admit I'm not certain beyond doubt that xl does this now or with all versions, but it is worth a look. And the dung out/ ask for more space fix ought to work anyway. :) >Thanks > [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] >> Suggest you have a dung out in the shared directory or ask for more disk >> space. :) I have discovered some more information with this issue. I believe that the disk is full error is false the drive has 50 GB free. When doing some trial and error I found that sometimes I could get the changes to save and other times I could not. I keep expanding the workbook until I consistamtly got the error to occur@3MB in size. What I noticed was that the time it took got significantly longer for it to save to the network location. I am now thinking that there may be a timeout issue or that the network drops the save operation. I will further investigate this avenue and see if I can find something along those lines. > >Thanks Bruce, I am unclear as to where I look for this reference. Can you > >add some more detail as to where I can get to this article? [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > >> Suggest you have a dung out in the shared directory or ask for more disk > >> space. :) >I have discovered some more information with this issue. I believe that the >disk is full error is false the drive has 50 GB free. When doing some trial [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > operation. I will further investigate this avenue and see if I can find >something along those lines. Does sound promising. Note that a network drive usually shows all it's space as free even if there are many users and your allocated share of it is a lot less. Can you check your disk quota allocation on that drive ? Users would usually have a lot less than 50 GB allocated to them. Good luck. :) >> In article <714162D1-1A20-4702-877C-3E64D43502B8@microsoft.com>, > =?Utf-8?B?SmltIEFiZWw=?= <JimAbel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] >> >> Suggest you have a dung out in the shared directory or ask for more disk >> >> space. :) I was generlizing when I said that were are on a network drive. The Desktops connect to at server that is entirely for the teams use that also servers as a wer server and the hard drive is entirely for out use, so there are no segments allocated to individuals. Its simply a client server situation. we were able to use a word docunebt as well and get it to generate the same error messages. We also tried mapping the drive instead of using the UNC to the file the result was the same error. Looks like the group will just change the process and save to their desktops and then copy the saved files back to the server. We just could not find anything unusual (monitoring task manager for processor, memory and network) that would cause the behavior. I appreciate your help, Thanks > >I have discovered some more information with this issue. I believe that the > >disk is full error is false the drive has 50 GB free. When doing some trial [quoted text clipped - 66 lines] > >> >> Suggest you have a dung out in the shared directory or ask for more disk > >> >> space. :) >I was generlizing when I said that were are on a network drive. The Desktops >connect to at server that is entirely for the teams use that also servers as [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >I appreciate your help, Thanks We try. Sometimes we fail. :) Only other thing I can think of is file permissions. Asumme you have checked those, so I'm stumped. Best of luck, and do report if you find a fix. |
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