Corrupt Word file corrupts whole system
I've got a Word file that's close to 200 pages in size. After keeping it open for a while Word:Mac 2011 reports an unrecoverable disk error without specifying the offending file name and hangs. My other Word files are OK. My Macbook Pro (with Mac OS X Lion) goes into "Hoover mode" with the fan spinning at full tilt. Worse still, the whole hard disk is corrupted. A verify with Disk Utility shows corrupted Word work files. Disk repair won't fix the disk and Mac OS X won't boot up any longer. I have no choice but to do a recovery boot and allow Time Machine to do a full restore, erasing and reformatting the disk while at it. This happens over and over again. I can accept that files get corrupted, but not that they corrupt the whole system!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Word:Mac 2011