"Save as" from Office to CD-R gives error. 1

[dsully]

Does anyone have any ideas on this one? One of my users is trying to "Save as" from Excel and Word XP to his CD-R drive. as soon as he selects it he gets and error that says "Icorrect Function" he hits OK and gets another error that says he does not have access to drive D:/. See your administrator for access to this folder. I have logged in as administrator and get the same result. This feature works fine from notepad and other prgrams. It just seems to be Office that has the problem. I have updated Windows and Office with no help.

David


Users.....not just for breakfast anymore!!

 

[fumei]

I assume you mean CD-RW, and that the CD session there is not closed. Hmmm. You can write a Notepad file, as SaveAs, directly to CD? I am surprised.

What are you using for CD writing software? I have never heard of this.

Gerry

 

[Auger282]

depends on the software... and I think the RW disk needs to be formatted to be able to use it like a "drive

 

[tf1]

Advise your user not to save directly to removable media (floppy, Zip, CD, etc,) from Word. Word has a complex save procedure: it builds the file structure step at a time by reading and writing to a temporary file in the target folder. When it has finished constructing the temp file, it then copies the result into the final file and deletes the temp file.

The problem with saving directly to Removable media is that the media is invariably slow and Word thinks it has lost data connection to the media. Another problem, especially with larger, complex documents is that the temp file may be huge and if there isn't sufficient space on the media, Word will barf.

Always save (and open) Word documents by copying to and from the HDD first.

Regards: tf1

 

[fumei]

Good one tf1.

Gerry

 

[dsully]

Thanks everyone for the replies. Tf1, that sounds just about right. I'm gonna tell my user it just won't work and he has to save to the network (which he should be doing anyway).

fumei - Yes it is a CD-RW and just using Win XP to write.

Auger282 - I think you are right too. I'm not sure if it has been formatted or not.

Here's your Star tf1.

David


Users.....not just for breakfast anymore!!

 

[tf1]

Thank you David

tf1