No longer able to save Word documents - older Macbook

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kshm Author

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No longer able to save Word documents - older Macbook

When I have tried to save multiple Word documents recently, I get this message:

"Word cannot save or create this file. The disk may be full or write-protected. Try one or more of the following:

*Free more memory

*Make sure that the disk you want to save the file on is not full, write-protected, or damaged"

I have 60GB of free space, but to be sure, I deleted 30 old documents and still no dice. I have no idea what write-protected means.

Thanks.

MacBook

Posted on Sep 25, 2011 3:39 PM

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kshm Author

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Sep 25, 2011 3:46 PM in response to kshm

Original post corrected.

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Jabdor

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Sep 28, 2011 7:42 AM in response to kshm

This website was helpful for me:

http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-101017.html

"as you work. Consequently, if working in Word for a long period of time, and frequently "saving" Word will hit its quota of saves and refuse to save anything else. The error messages ("too many documents open" or "disk full") are bogus and obviously not true in the real sense, but serve to worry the user and displace blame away from ms...

Thus it appears that this bug hits cautious users the hardest - as "saving early and saving often" is precisely what makes it happen. You might say "once burned, twice shy, thrice slapped in the face by microsoft."

The solution when the problem hits is to simply copy your changes since the last save (possibly paste them elsewhere), shut down MS Word, reopen it, then just paste your changes into the document, which will still be saved in its previous incarnation. If editing a document, this can be a bit more annoying as the changes might not be a paragraph or two, but rather a whole pile of little changes spread over an entire paper..." (TheMac19)

Hope that helps anyone in the future!

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